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Playing Hitler's Tune

on BBC Radio 4 FM

The last in the series looking at how music and musicians were manipulated to further the political aims of Hitler's Nazi regime. Courted by Hitler, composer Richard Strauss and conductor Wilhelm Furtwanglerwere both set up as figureheads in Nazi Germany. Recent research suggests that history may have treated one too kindly and the othertoo harshly, Producer Paul Evans

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Unknown:
Richard Strauss
Conductor:
Wilhelm Furtwanglerwere
Producer:
Paul Evans

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