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Hitler’s Secret Record Collection: Did the Fuhrer Dig Jewish Musicians?

Say what you will about Hitler, he apparently had better taste in music than previously assumed. ABC News reports: “A new chapter about Hitler’s taste in classical music has now been opened on reports that suggest the German dictator and Holocaust mastermind may have actually had an ear for the works of Jewish and Russian musicians.”

(Hat tip: Raphael Mostel)

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