Hitler's Twilight of the Gods

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Alexandra Birch is the Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at the Harriman Institute at Columbia University.

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This book demonstrates the integral role music played in Nazi statecraft and ideology, from the personal obsessions of the Nazi leadership to the harrowing use of musical sadism in the Holocaust.

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Prelude

1. Das Reichgold
2. Donner und Blitzkrieg
3. A Blood-Oath to the Reich: Musical Sadism and the Holocaust in the USSR
4. Treblinka: A Forest Portal to Hell
5. Valhalla Burns: Music and the Teutonic Delusions of the Nazi Command in the Final Days of the Second World War
6. Trauermusik
   Epilogue: Das Erlösungsmotiv
   Notes
   Bibliography
   Index