Swing Under The Nazis: Jazz As A Metaphor For Freedom

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For a brief time in a Europe threatened and then occupied by Nazi Germany, jazz was heard as ubiquitously as rock '' n'' roll is today

• Swing Under The Nazis: Jazz As A Metaphor For Freedom available on April 30 2020 from Indigo for 21.95
  
• ISBN bar code 9780815410751 ξ1 registered April 30 2020
  
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In a personal search for the story of that time, Mike Zwerin spent two years traveling across Europe talking with individuals who performed and enjoyed jazz in Hitler''s dark shadow, including the Ghetto Swingers, a Jewish jazz band that toured Auschwitz and Theresienstadt; the Luftwaffe pilot who listened to Glenn Miller while bombing London; Django Reinhardt, the brilliant guitarist who refused to flee Nazi-controlled France; and many others.

^ Swing Under The Nazis: Jazz As A Metaphor For Freedom Indigo. ISBN 9780815410751 (revised Apr 2020)