Hitler's Music

Hitler's Point of Tension

Philosopher Francis Schaeffer had a term he called a "point of tension". The idea was that a mans belief systems, unless founded in objective truth, would eventually falter and crumble like a house of cards. The man finds that what he held as a "world view", because it was based on a false presupposition simply does not work any longer. He can not act within his "constructed truth", and therefore must confess it is no longer true, or he becomes a hopeless hypocrite... And therein is the "point of tension". Is what I believe REALLY TRUE? What am I basing that truth on? Does it actually work for my life?

Hitler had a very infamous "belief system". But as we see here, even as vehemently as he held to it, he found he had to become a hypocrite. It simply did not work in real life.
Something to think about........
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Hitler's Music Collection Turns Up in Dead Russian Soldier's Attic
By Roger Boyes

BERLIN — Adolf Hitler, the most notorious champion of Richard Wagner and “racially pure” German music, banished Jewish and Russian musicians from the concert halls of the Third Reich — but apparently listened secretly to their work.

New light has been shed on the Nazi leader’s musical tastes by the discovery of what are said to be a hundred of his gramophone records found in the attic of a former Soviet intelligence officer, Lev Besymenski.

The most astonishing fact about the records, essentially Hitler’s “Best of . . .” collections is the presence of Jewish performers. Among the recordings is a Tchaikovsky concerto performed by the virtuoso Polish Jewish violinist Bronislaw Huberman. Hitler would have been aware, while listening to Huberman’s playing, that he had founded the Palestine Orchestra in 1936 (which went on to be the foundation of today’s Israel Philharmonic Orchestra) and that he was living in enforced exile.
The Austrian Jewish pianist Artur Schnabel, whose mother was killed by the Nazis, also had his work included in Hitler’s personal collection.

Hitler had spelt out his view of Jewish culture in Mein Kampf. “There was never a Jewish art and there is none today,” he wrote, adding that the “two queens of the arts, architecture and music, gained nothing original from the Jews”.
(Complete story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292397,00.html)