Very Eerie...Music that was played on radios throughout the German Reich after Hitler's death was announced.

OP: this is the type of historical reference that genuinely intrigues me. Thanks much for posting it here.

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I don't get it. Why is it so "eerie"

Nice music. Thanks.

Just to remind the world Hitler was an anti semite.

I don't think it's eerie, sounds like a typical Bruckner composition common to the romantic period, they should have played Wagners Das Liebesmahl der Apostel, Heh heh.

The "eerieness" lies not with the music itself, but with the association of Hitler's death.

They did play a Wagner composition as well, but there is a difference of opinions as to which one.

Hitler was not dead. He died years later in South America.

Great music. I'm sure this was a different era of propaganda and the choice of using music genre and the selection of the piece was very fitting at the time.

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Thanks for the info.

Do you have any idea on what comps of Wagner may have been played?

Bruckner was a Wagner disciple. His 4th and 7th symphonies are some of the finest music ever written in that genre.

Thanks for that reference...

About 2 people heard radio music on that day you idiots. You actually think we had electricity after all our cities were bombed into ashes?

Most people think it was "Gotterdammerung" simply because so many documentaries showing the destruction of Germany have used it as a score...plus, the "myth" behind the music drama ("Twilight of the Gods"), where the world ends in a deluge of destruction seems to "fit" mentally with the images of the end of the Reich.

This is the Nazis (the national socialist party of Germany) suffering or mourning their loss of utopia. It is interesting to note that the vast majority of American Jewish people are socialists and have joined in the imposition of a culture w/o ethics - humanism - on the US. In other words, they are following and even funding and enforcing a culture of death; the same one that operated in the Nazi Germany and that operates in communist mass murder nations.

My mom used to call it a bum magnet when women who were abused as children dated and married men who were abusers.

Anyway, historian, thanks for the nightmare memory. I call on everyone who does not want mass murder to stand up for the constitution and outlaw the "living constituion" leftists in the Democrat and Republicans parties have managed to impose on our country. Interesting to also note that the ADL has named those who are for the constitution are "domestic terrorists."

Yup. And for all the talk about saving people from war crime, Nobody cared what happened to women and children after the war. The real enemy was Russia.

They should have played it for the millions killed after the Wannsee Conference!

What did they play after Brigadefuehrer Jurgen Stoop retook the Warsaw Getto or Stalingrad fell?

Thanks

Interesting, thank you. In those days they had public radios attached to many buildings, wherever the public could be reached.

Prior to, and leading up to the end of the war, Sondermeldungen (major or special war achievement announcements for the public)PSAs had been broadcast with uplifting march music blaring in advance for hours on these radios.

For those of you interested, here is a site where you can get some hard to find classical pieces for free.


Enjoy


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why were most Germans back then so smart? all your great scienctises were German

He did not die in South America. He is alive and well in a secret base in Antarctica awaiting the return of his secret fleet of spacecraft.


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Same reason America's "progressives" are Eugenics freaks. To some smart equals murder.

plays snooker with LHO, Jack Ruby, JE Ray, Tim McVey etc etc

And we had a great time dropping bombs on you.

Thanks for your participation.

They are still smart.

Look how Germany flourishes despite the fact their country was in ashes, most of their productive male population and industry gone after WWII.

Not to mention public opinion against them which to some point lingers on today.

I have respect for the Germans and how they rebuilt Germany.

They should be proud now for what they have accomplished after WWII and stop feeling guilty about the sins of their grandfathers which they had nothing to do with.

Excellent point!

Yes indeed, time to forget all the vile slanders which have been perpetrated against a great nation!

Joseph Haydn - Deutschland Uber Alles

Did you now?

"It struck me at the time, the thought of the women and children down there. We seemed to fly for hours over a sheet of fire, a terrific red glow with thin haze over it. I found myself making comments to the crew 'Oh God, those poor people'. It was completely uncalled for. You can't justify it. "

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That is a distinct posibility.