Jazz Jews’ Fault, Says Nazi Teacher

The Jew has always tried to create “catchy salon and operetta music” and is “responsible for the jazz music which Negrofied the soul of the German people,” declared Professor M. Unger, acting director of Cologne Musical Academy, in the course of a speech on German music.

“Music created by Jews never had the qualities to be found in the vast traditional and devotional music. How much more seriously does the German musician take his art,” the Nazi professor said. “The German musician may be inclined to become philosophical, but he always manages to link it up with his people. Above all he is chiefly concerned with the purity of his art.”