2007-03-06 14:18:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
I'm not a wierdo this is a school question on a take-home test. I have half the answer I just don't know what it did to Hitler to get him to stop the war.
2007-03-06 14:28:22 · update #1
Hitler had outlawed any music with a synchopated beat ( a backbeat, such as jazz, rock'n'roll, reggae, bossanova, etc ) deeming it "der niggermusik". He felt that proper music was Wagner. Anyways, only Allied radio stations would play the jazz and swing, the best music of the day. Germans wanted to hear news and music, so they listened to Allied broadcasts such as Voice of America. This allowed Allies to broadcast anti-Nazi propaganda. Also Allied news painted a much different picture of the war, as official German radio insisted they were winning.
The penalty for listening to foreign programming was prison camp, and later increased to death. The Germans issued an official peoples radio, the Gerberschnauzen, which could only tune in to German propoganda stations. It was incredibly insensitive. Resourceful Germans found a way to tamper with the sets so they could hear music and unbiased news. When they could hear with their own ears the music that was supposed to be so bad, this "niggermusik" it led them to doubt the Nazi cause. The Allied stations also carried coded broadcasts to assist the German underground.
An interesting note: The German industrial/ experimental band Einstürzende Neubauten released a track entitled "Listen with Pain/ Hear with Pain/ Ears are wounds", which consists entirely of extremely unpleasant feedback from a metal coil spring with a microphone attached to it being pounded repeatedly while an anguished voice intones over and over "Gerberschnauzen".
Not many people got this, I thought it was brilliant.
2007-03-06 14:50:58 · answer #1 · answered by Thurston Howell III 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Brother Glenn Miller also gave the US Troops a taste of home not only over the radio but also live performances. these performances helped keep the morale of the average soldier higher because even though fighting they still had a taste and a connection with their home.
2007-03-07 08:40:21 · answer #2 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
aah your a wierdo
well go do your own homework then sop tryin to get us to do it for you is this how your gonna get through life your gonna end up living your life by the magic 8 ball if your not careful
2007-03-06 22:26:42 · answer #3 · answered by kikidee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They didn't.
2007-03-06 22:25:52 · answer #4 · answered by electroncloud 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋