In three programmes, Valentine Cunningham looks at how music and musicians were manipulated to furtherthe political aims of Hitler's Nazi regime. 1: How the seeds of discontent sown in the Weimar Republic generated the quest forthe true Aryan successors to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms and fuelled the purge of non-Aryan musicians and their music which culminated in the 1938 exhibition of music branded as degenerate: Entartete Musik. Producer Paul Evans