> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Famed Czech radical Josef Skvorecky recently died at 87 in his adopted > land of Canada. > In the Atlantic, JJ Gould remembers Skvorecky through his memoirs, > including a detailed list of the rules for jazz performers during the > Nazi occupation. The Reich's Gauleiter for the Nazi Protectorate of > Bohemia and Moravia issued a 10-point regulation that Gould calls "the > single most remarkable example of 20th-century totalitarian invective > against jazz."
As a matter of fact, they are only now rediscovering the swing movement in then Germany as a type of resistance. Quite a few maladjusted youths were sent to concentration camps on grounds of listening to swing music. Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
