August 08, 2007
Hitler's Record Collection
Surprise! He was a hypocrite!
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I understood that the Nazis kept meticulous records.
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Supposedly Winston Churchill was a fan of the Charlie And His Orchestra broadcasts from Berlin. Go figure.
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It's true! Hitler kept his entire record collection arranged according to genre, year of release, last name of the artist AND whether or not they were sub-human! Now THAT's meticulous!
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Sub-human? How come no jazz?
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I can't shake the mental image of some put-upon low-level grunt secretly playing Russian and Jewish music around the bunker without telling the boss what he was listening to as a sort of sarcastic revenge. Kind of like the resentful fast-food worker who spits in the hamburgers of the customers who annoy him.
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Him also gorge on Matzoh.
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Fascinating discovery. I expect after 40 years it will come to light that George Bush had well-thumbed volumes of Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica on his bedside table.
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Nah, I wager they will still find that dog eared volume is going to be "The Pet Goat."
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While we're humanizing monstrosities: in the middle ages people were entertained by cripples, executions and Gallagher. That means that they thought of them as equals.
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But did they send the Middle-Ages Youth out to burn all the cripples' work because they wanted it purged from society?
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Nah, I wager they will still find that dog eared volume is going to be "The Pet Goat." Hidden under the bed because of overdue fees.
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How come no jazz? That was used on POWs.
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Interestingly enough, Kurt Weill made it to Hitler's hit list not only because he was a Jew and a leftist, but because he was corrupting pure German music by infusing it with "degenerate" jazz elements that had their roots in the African-American community.
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But did they send the Middle-Ages Youth out to burn all the cripples' work because they wanted it purged from society? No, they sent the Knightzi Youth out to smash watermelons. Hitler.