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How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder

  • Written by Edward B. Westermann, Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M-San Antonio
imagePrisoners are forced to play music as they lead a fellow prisoner to his execution at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria.Votava/Imagno via Getty Images

In December 1943, a 20-year-old named Ruth Elias arrived in a cattle car at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She was assigned to Block 6 in the family camp, a barracks that...

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