Does Adolf Hitler like Duke Ellington? No, and nor do many National Socialists. But the story of the music in the Third Reich is more complicated than you might think. What if we told you that Joseph Goebbels has tried to create a Nazi-approved swing band tasked with bringing the Jazz War to the Allies?

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Hosted by: Astrid Deinhard and Indy Neidell
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Creative Producer: Marek Kamiński
Community Management: Ian Sowden
Written by: Francis van Berkel
Research by: Francis van Berkel
Map animations by: Daniel Weiss
Map research by: Sietse Kenter
Edited by: Iryna Dulka
Artwork and color grading by: Mikołaj Uchman
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński
Colorizations by:
Mikołaj Uchman
Daniel Weiss

Source literature list: http://bit.ly/WW2sources

Archive footage: Screenocean/Reuters - https://www.screenocean.com

Image sources:
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
IWM S15 7, D 12274, NAT 1080, COI 952, CPD 101
Willy Pragher

Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
A Caper Story - Martin Landstrom
All Good Things Come in Threes - Ritchie Everett
Stomp! Stomp! Stomp! - Martin Landstrom
A Strange Man - Rich in Rags
The Bonn Predicament - Duke Herrington
Bobby Swing - Bladverk Band
Memoirs of a Silk Bow Tie - The Fly Guy Five
Nightmoves - Wendy Marcini
Boro - Hara Noda
Just Got Eyes For You (Instrumental Version) - Ivy-Rose Lyon

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