SinaiFree Film Society Discussion of "Music Under the Swastika”

12 Nov @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

The Film Society will discuss “Music Under the Swastika.”

This documentary explores how German classical music was used by the Nazi regime, and the contrasting fates of two Jewish figures who shared a love for that music: Wilhelm Furtwängler, a star conductor who made a pact with the Nazis, and Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. The film is a meditation on the power of the same music to literally save lives while simultaneously being used to justify a totalitarian regime and its atrocities.

The film is available for free (without ads) on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvoT8QANp8I

The film that appears with the title “Music in Nazi Germany” is the same film.

There is one DVD in the Westchester Library System.