Routledge Music Handbooks The Routledge Handbook to Music under German Occupation, 1938-1945, (Hardcover)

Following their entry into Austria and the Sudetenland, the Germans attempted to impose a policy of cultural imperialism on countries they occupied during the World War II. Almost all music institutions came under their control. The objective being to change the musical fabric of these nations and subject them to the strictures of Nazi ideology.