08 August 2007
Adolf Hitler’s private record collection reportedly included works by Jewish and Russian composers and artists who were branded by himself and his fellow Nazis as "subhuman". A recently discovered record collection of the German dictator included a Tchaikovsky violin concerto featuring the Jewish violinist Bronislaw Huberman, who fled from Vienna in 1937 and was labeled as an enemy of the Third Reich. Music by other Russian composers such as Borodin and Rachmaninoff was also found in Hitler's record collection, which was discovered by Lev Bezymensky, a Soviet intelligence officer who had been ordered to search Hitler’s Chancellery after Berlin fell to the allies in 1945. Bezymensky, took the records back to Moscow where he kept them secret. His daughter decided to open them after her father’s death last month. Hitler despised Jewish music, writing in his book ‘Mein Kampf’ that Jewish art had "never existed." The Nazis banned most music by Jewish composers as “Entartete Musik” [degenerate music].
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