World War Two

Season 0, Episode 395

Episode Title: Hitler's Jazz Band

Air Date: 2023-02-09

Overview:

Does Adolf Hitler like Duke Ellington? No, and nor do many National Socialists. But the story of the music in the Third Reich is more complicated than you might think. What if we told you that Joseph Goebbels has tried to create a Nazi-approved swing band tasked with bringing the Jazz War to the Allies?