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Ziegler, Hans Severus 1893-1978. Entartete Musik [Subtitle]: Eine Abrechnung von Staatsrat Dr. H.S. Ziegler Generalintendant des Deutschen Nationaltheaters zu Weimar, Düsseldorf: Völkischer Verlag , [1938].
Rare (OCLC 20101201 - 4 copies only, all in Germany).
Published to accompany an exhibition relating to "degenerate" music entitled "Entartete Musik," May 24th-June 14th, 1938. The concept of "degeneracy" was firmly entrenched in Nazi policy; among the speakers at the opening of the exhibition was propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels.
Ziegler was a fervent supporter of Nazi ideology; he founded the periodical Der Völkische in 1924, suggested the name "Hitlerjugend" for the Nazi Youth movement, and formulated a decree entitled "Wider die Negerkultur" ("Against the Negro Culture" in 1930. The present essay attempts an explanation of the ideological basis of National Socialism and rants against music and musicians considered degenerate by the Nazis, particularly jazz and Jewish musicians.
"The term 'entartete' was coined in the 19th century by the doctor and criminologist Cesare Lombroso with reference to an abnormal condition akin to moral and spiritual deterioration. Adopted by the Nazis during the 1920s, it became a loosely defined technical concept with which to condemn modern culture that, according to Hitler, manifested symptoms of national decline. Thus atonal music, jazz and above all works by Jewish composers were branded as 'degenerate', though in fact during the Third Reich reactionary critics applied the term indiscriminately to a wide variety of styles from the avant garde to popular operetta, particularly if the composer was deemed politically or racially unacceptable to the regime.
Following the example of the notorious Entartete Kunst art exhibition in Munich in 1937, Nazi cultural politicians mounted an Entartete Musik exhibition the following year in Düsseldorf in connection with the first Reichsmusiktage ('National Music Days'). Among the exhibits were portraits of 'defamed' composers (Schoenberg, Webern, Hindemith, Stravinsky, Weill, Krenek, Reutter), under which were printed crude slogans attacking the character and racial origin of each, theoretical works and articles by Schoenberg, Hindemith, Weissmann and others, scores by Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Hindemith, Weill, Krenek, Schreker, Eisler, Berg, Toch and Reutter, discredited modern music journals such as Melos and Anbruch, and books on jazz. In addition, special listening booths were installed in the middle of the exhibition hall to allow the general public to hear recordings of some of the music that was being publicly ostracized.
Essentially the brainchild of Hans Severus Ziegler, the director of the Weimar National Theatre, the exhibition was assembled rather hastily and without an accompanying catalogue. Nonetheless, Ziegler published an inflammatory pamphlet entitled Entartete Musik-eine Abrechmung (Düsseldorf, n.d.) as an adjunct to the exhibition, describing the event as a 'veritable witches' sabbath portraying the most frivolous intellectual and artistic concepts of Cultural Bolshevism and the triumph of arrogant Jewish impudence'.
Although it received far less public attention than Entartete Kunst, the Entartete Musik exhibition aroused controversy in the musical world and did not meet with the unequivocal approval of Peter Raabe, the president of the Reichsmusikkammer. Ziegler later moved the exhibition to Weimar, but it was never revived in other German cities.
In 1988, fifty years after its inauguration, the musicologist Albrecht Dümling and impresario Peter Girth reconstructed the Entartete Musik exhibition in Düsseldorf, in order to remind later generations of the evils perpetrated by fascist cultural politicians (catalogue ed. A. Dümling and P. Girth, Entartete Musik: eine kommentierte Rekonstruktion, Düsseldorf, 1988). The exhibition was shown in several countries throughout the world, and was instrumental in inspiring the Decca record company to issue their Entartete Musik series devoted to the work of many composers who were proscribed by the Nazis

Octavo. Original publisher's wrappers printed in red and black with a striking illustration depicting a black musician playing the saxophone by Ludwig Tersch, wearing a star of David in place of a carnation in his tuxedo lapel; the illustration is based on the character "Negermusiker Jonny" from Ernst Krenek's opera "Jonny spielt auf." 1f. (title), 3-32 pp. Illustrated with black and white reproductions including portrait photographs and drawings of Arnold Schönberg, Ernst Toch, Franz Schreker, Kurt Weill, Ernst Krenek, Anton Webern, Leo Fall, Oskar Straus, Otto Klemperer, and Paul Hindemith; art work of Adolf Weitzmann, Heinrich Strobel, Oskar Schlemmer, Carl Hofer, and Paul Klee; and ephemera relating to Krenek and Mahler.
Wrappers with two central staples, slightly split at head and foot of spine. Browned, but a very good, crisp and clean copy overall.
Together with the following complementary material:
- Kaiser, Fritz b. 1895. Führer durch die Ausstellung Entartete Kunst. Berlin: Verlag für Kultur- und Wirtschaftswerbung, 1937. Octavo. Original publisher's wrappers with titling in white and red. [1] (title), 2-32 pp. With numerous illustrations of works artists considered "degenerate" by the Nazis including Dix, Hoffmann, Kirchner, Klee, Kokoschka, Nolde and others. Wrappers with two central staples, slightly creased and with short splits at head and foot of spine.
- Tri-fold broadside for an exhibition at La Boetie in New York entitled "Degenerate" Art (Forbidden Art in Nazi Germany) April 4 through May 20, 1972.
- Dresler, Adolf, ed. Deutsche Kunst und entartete "Kunst" Kunstwerk und Zerrbild als Spiegel der Weltanschauung. München: Deutscher Volksverlag [1938]. Octavo. Original publisher's cloth with titling to upper. 1f. (title), pp. 3-4 ("Vorwort"), 5-32 text, 33 ("Zu unseren Bildern), pp. 34-79 illustrations, [i] pp. With ink handstamp "Return to Supreme Headquarters Document Center... Paris" to free front endpaper and annotation in pencil with numbering in ink to upper margin of title.

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Soucoup, Dan ...with intro by Edith Robb: Looking Back: From the Pages of the Times & Transcript - True Stories of Pirate Mysteries, Buried Treasure, Train Wrecks, Historic Storms, Disasters at Sea, Spies, Con Men, Tragedies, Scandals, Crime & Punishment..by the Author of "Glimpses of Old Moncton, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Maritime Lines 2002
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....Large format soft cover (not large print), viii + 394 pages, tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine, no names, illustrated through-out with drawings, maps and b & w photos. "In Looking Back, Dan Soucoup has dipped deep into the rich lore of the Maritimes to create an entertaining book that attempts to sort out these lively accounts of crime and punishment, the wild Prohibition era, ship wrecks, railways, war and conflict, scandals and political controveries." Contents include: Intro by Edith Robb / Fact & Fiction of the Pirate Age / Fundy Bay's Treasure Island / Captain Kidd Was a Scapegoat / Piracy on the Fishing Grounds / Maritime Privateers - Legal Pirates / Black Mogul's Castaway / Mutiny On the Veronica / The Search for Acadian Gold / Sam Napier's Magnificent Gold Nugget / The Black Summer 1816 / The Great Yankee Gale / The Gigantic Fundy Flood / The Atlantic Cyclone 1873 / Disaster Off Escuminac / When Mice Ate Everything / Famous Old Shipwrecks Sites / The Transatlantic Steamship Race Tragedy / Jerome the Mystery Man / Rexton & The Mary Celeste / Women and Children Go Last / Early Railways and Locomotives / The Piggyback Railway / Early Railway Dreams / The Million Dollar Fire / Champion of the People's Railway / Creation of the CNR / Branch Lines Everywhere / Train Crash on the M & B Line / The Barnes Circus Train Wreck / Fine Old Railway Stations / The Circus Train Came to Town / First Hockey Night in Canada / Acadia's Militant Missionary / Petitcodiac Privateer Beausoleil Brossard / Colonel Robert Monckton / Old Forts of Chignecto / Russian Revolution Began in Amherst / The Year of the Spanish Flu / Imprisonment of the Mayor of Montreal / Escaped Nazis in Wartime Canada / Wartime Enemies, Spies & Aliens / Shediac's New Light Murder / New Brunswick's Most Wanted Man / The Murder of William End / The Day The Police Were Fired / The Donnelly House Homicide / The Tim McCarthy Affair / Mysterious Death of Mabel Stevens / The Slow End to Public Executions / A Bungled Bank Burglary / The Meadow Brook Tragedy / Westmortand's Last Hanging / The Great Salisbury Bank Heist / Albert County's Daring Bank Robbery / When Demon Rum Was King / Prohibition Liquor King Joe Walnut / Big Fundy Shore Booze Raid / Smuggler's Haven - Kent County / Prohibition Pirates - It Beats Carrying Sardines / The Contentious Prohibiton Years / Slavery, Racism & Neglect / Border Wars At Chignecto / Governor's Arrest in Moncton / Duelling and the Code of Honour / The Arrest of John T Hawke / Politics & the Ku Klux Klan / The Stagecoach & Roadhouses / The Pony Express & Telegraph The Creation of Standard Time Zones / Milestones in Bridge Construction / The Controversial Early Automobiles / The McKay Motor Car / Last Days of Old-Time Travel / Airlines & Airports / Sources. Any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo! First Edition Soft Cover 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

[SW: ....Large format soft cover (not large print), viii + 394 pages, tight clean and square, flat uncreased spine, no names, illustrated through-out with drawings, maps and b & w photos. "In Looking Back, Dan Soucoup has dipped deep into the rich lore of the Maritimes to create an entertaining book that attempts to sort out these lively accounts of crime and punishment, the wild Prohibition era, ship wrecks, railways, war and conflict, scandals and political controveries." Contents include: Intro by Edith Robb / Fact & Fiction of the Pirate Age / Fundy Bay's Treasure Island / Captain Kidd Was a Scapegoat / Piracy on the Fishing Grounds / Maritime Privateers - Legal Pirates / Black Mogul's Castaway / Mutiny On the Veronica / The Search for Acadian Gold / Sam Napier's Magnificent Gold Nugget / The Black Summer 1816 / The Great Yankee Gale / The Gigantic Fundy Flood / The Atlantic Cyclone 1873 / Disaster Off Escuminac / When Mice Ate Everything / Famous Old Shipwrecks Sites / The Transatlantic Steamship Race Tragedy / Jerome the Mystery Man / Rexton & The Mary Celeste / Women and Children Go Last / Early Railways and Locomotives / The Piggyback Railway / Early Railway Dreams / The Million Dollar Fire / Champion of the People's Railway / Creation of the CNR / Branch Lines Everywhere / Train Crash on the M & B Line / The Barnes Circus Train Wreck / Fine Old Railway Stations / The Circus Train Came to Town / First Hockey Night in Canada / Acadia's Militant Missionary / Petitcodiac Privateer Beausoleil Brossard / Colonel Robert Monckton / Old Forts of Chignecto / Russian Revolution Began in Amherst / The Year of the Spanish Flu / Imprisonment of the Mayor of Montreal / Escaped Nazis in Wartime Canada / Wartime Enemies, Spies & Aliens / Shediac's New Light Murder / New Brunswick's Most Wanted Man / The Murder of William End / The Day The Police Were Fired / The Donnelly House Homicide / The Tim McCarthy Affair / Mysterious Death of Mabel Stevens / The Slow End to Public Executions / A Bungled Bank Burglary / The Meadow Brook Tragedy / Westmortand's Last Hanging / The Great Salisbury Bank Heist / Albert County's Daring Bank Robbery / When Demon Rum Was King / Prohibition Liquor King Joe Walnut / Big Fundy Shore Booze Raid / Smuggler's Haven - Kent County / Prohibition Pirates - It Beats Carrying Sardines / The Contentious Prohibiton Years / Slavery, Racism & Neglect / Border Wars At Chignecto / Governor's Arrest in Moncton / Duelling and the Code of Honour / The Arrest of John T Hawke / Politics & the Ku Klux Klan / The Stagecoach & Roadhouses / The Pony Express & Telegraph The Creation of Standard Time Zones / Milestones in Bridge Construction / The Controversial Early Automobiles / The McKay Motor Car / Last Days of Old-Time Travel / Airlines & Airports / Sources. The Sea Trains]

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Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw and Lewin, Zofia -- Editors: Righteous Among Nations; How Poles Help of the Jews 1939-1945, London Earlscourt Publications Limited 1969 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; 1. Ed.
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1.055 kg.; LXXXVIII, 836 pages, last two pages blank, intentionally, preface from the editors, documents and index. Light blue coloured boards with black titles to the front panel and backstrip. Bumping to the top text block edge and to the lower book edges. Shelf wear to the lower edges. Very light dustiness to the top text block edge. Plain text dustwrapper with black, gray and blue titles to the front panel and black titles to the backstrip. Rubbing and creasing to the dustwrapper corners and edges. There is a small close tear to the top edge of the backstrip with associated creasing and to the lower left-hand corner of the front dustwrapper panel. Rubbing to the dustwrapper panels. Photograph, black-and-white, of Wladyslaw Bartoszewski to the front fold over panel. In this book the editors tell about " ... the help given by the Polish people to the victims of the Nuremberg laws when the Nazis occupied their country. At the outbreak of World War II common Poland had a larger Jewish population than any other country in the world. According to the latest census, 3 1/2 million citizens had registered themselves as practising Jews, and this number alone constituted more than a 10th of the total population of Poland. Further, there were about 100,000 members of Christian churches whose Jewish origin was sufficient to condemn them in the eyes of the Nazis stop Jewish historians give different estimates of the number of Jews who managed to survive the German occupation of Poland. The figures range from between 40 or 50,000 to a hundred or 120,000. Only a very small portion survived the war in concentration camps, labour camps and prisoner of war camps. The remaining survivors owe their lives to the Polish people, to the gorillas and private individuals who concealed and succoured them." -- from the rear fold over panel. Digital image available upon request to help assess condition. ***** PLEASE NOTE: This book weighs more than 1 kg [ 2.2 lbs ] packed, and extra postage will be requested for delivery outside of Australia. First Edition Good Blue Cloth 8vo - up to 9 ¾" tall - Octavo Judaica; First Edition

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Breuer, William B. Deceptions Of World War II. Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.: Castle Books Inc, 2005. ISBN: 0785819932

REPRINT OF BOOK ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 2001. The book and dust jacket are in FINE condition. NOT price-clipped. NOT remaindered. 242 pages with index. Black & white photo illustrated. JMVintage specializes in books, magazines, and other treasures related to the Duke & Duchess of Windsor..and other curious subjects. Back wrapper notes: "While much has been written about the great battles and courageous acts of conventional fighting in World War II, some of the more unconventional but no less risky schemes and ruses of cloak-and-dagger agencies and military commanders have mostly eluded the spotlight. Now, in Deceptions of World War II, noted military historian and author William Breur presents more than eighty little-known tales of illusions, masquerades, and fakery that were often decisive factors, providing an advantage that could mean the difference between victory and defeat. Painstakingly researched and collected from personal interviews, official archives, and declassified documents, these fresh, fast-paced accounts take you directly into the minds of the men and women who misled their enemy, uncovered military secrets, and furthered their cause by any means possible: stealing Hitler's secret weaponÖ'smuggling' ships to EnglandÖfinancing and FBI coupÖimpersonating a submarine fleetÖunmasking German spiesÖeven sending Nazis into the White House. From Nazi Germany on the march to the Allies' road to victory, you'll marvel at the actions of: Ladislas Farago, who was formally classified as insane and yet on active duty in the US Navy, operating as a secret agent; The nine Germans who 'captured' Belgrade by means of a bold bluff; London's devious 'Shadow Warrior,' who invented rumors to throw Germany off its guard and drive a wedge between the Nazi leaders and the military; The Oslo Gang, whose mind-boggling exploits helped to convict Norwegian traitors and German war criminals soon after the liberation; Greta Garbo, the world-famous Swedish actress who worked undercover the British and reported on Nazi Sympathizers. Writing in an engaging, dramatic style, Breuer is once again at the top of his form, uncovering nuggets of espionage that will enthrall World War II buffs hungry for new stories of the war as well as anyone interested in compelling tales. TABLE OF CONTENTS PART ONE-HEADING TOWARD THE BRINK A British Mole in German Spy School; An Elderly German Casanova; Return of a 'Conquering Hero'; The 'Poor Little Rich Girl'; A Scheme to 'Nazify' Thirty Million Americans'; A Seminary Student Stalks Hitler; Standard Oil's Nazi Connection; Theft of Maginot Line Secrets' The Pope's Clandestine Peace Plan; An American Forum to Promote Germany; Roosevelt's Secret Scheme to Aid the British; 'Our Enemies Are Little Worms'; Lulling Europe's Leaders to Sleep; PART TWO-A WORLD ROCKED BY WAR A German Spymaster Plots against Hitler; The Polish Assassin Wore Pigtails; An American Celebrity Aids the Fuhrer; A Civic-Minded Spy in Miami; A Swedish Professor's Intelligence Coup; Greta Garbo: A Secret Agent; 'You Will Spy for the Fatherland!'; Hitler Finances an FBI Coup; Japanese Fisherman in the Caribbean; Confiscating Nazis' Stolen Art Treasures; A Propaganda Blitz against the US; The Secret Looting of Conquered Europe; A Hollywood 'Warrior' Is Knighted; Roosevelt: Conniver or Country Bumpkin?; "Smuggling" five Ships to England; Plastic Surgery for a British Spy; PART THREE-NAZI GERMANY ON THE MARCH Nazi Diplomat Spies in the US; Secret Trysts in Berlin Theaters; J. Edgar Hoover: Rumormonger; An Unlikely Counterfeit Traitor; The Spy Who Fooled Both Sides; Nine Germans Capture Belgrade; The 'Directness of Masquerades'; Ruses to Aid Trapped British Force' 'We Stand behind every Camel!'; An Enemy Agent in the Spymaster's Family; Mission: Hide Alexandria Harrbor; Nazi Spies Visit the White House; Escaping in Disguise from A Deatah Camp; The World's Strangest Business; The German 'Butcher's' Gardener; PART FOUR-A SLEEPING AMERICA AWAKENS A Plot to Coerce the US into War; American Postcards Aid Pearl Harbor Attack; Urgent Mission: Disguise California; The Mysterious Camp X; Probing Secrets of the Atlantikwall; Contrivances to Save Jewish Children; Sneaking a Danish Leader to London; An 'Insane' Man in US Navy Post; A German Deception Masterpiece; A Deluge of Phony Food Coupons; Impersonating a Submarine Fleet; The Phantom Field Marshall; German Soldiers Help a Woman 'Terrorist'; Escaping Captivity by a ruse; The Grand Mufti's Rejected Report; British Magicians Hoodwink Rommel; PART FIVE-TURNING OF THE TIDE A Danish Spy Preaches to the Germans; Japan Wants Lethal Gas on England; General Eisenhower's Furious Wife; The Gestapo Tricks British Spymaster; London's Devious 'Shadow Warrior;'; Jim, the Talented Forger; The Lady Journalist Was a Spy; America's Black Propaganda Experts; A 'Water Donkey' Subterfuge; Strange Role for a Copenhagen Hotel; War among London's Spy Chiefs; A Cat Bombardier; A Plot to Kidnap the Pope; Capturing an Island by Deceit; 'Fisherman' Blow Up Key Canal; PART SIX-THE ALLIES'S ROAD TO VICTORY Cat-and-Mouse Duel with the Gestapo; Hedy Lamarr Creates Panic; A Bluff Saves an Underground Chief; A Stowaway Lands on a Hostile Beach; Sardine Treats for U-Boat Crews; Heists by the 'Oslo Gang'; Fashion Model Unmasks German Spy; A Trojan Horse Ploy; A Cherbourg Priest Plays Kickball; History's Most Incredible Impersonation; 'Black Radio' Blackmails German; A Nazi Campaign to Defeat Roosevelt; Operation Ferdinand Bamboozles Germans; Polish Underground Steals Hitler's Secret Weapon; Grandma Was A Secret Agent; A Pregnant Spy Cuts a Deal; 'Faithful Heinrich' Betrays His Fuhrer; NOTES AND SOURCES; INDEX" Hard Back condition: Fine in Fine dj

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