ABSTRACT

This chapter presents the Warsaw district of the General Government, undoubtedly echoes statements of the principal Nazi ideologists and is a direct expression of Nazi beliefs and emotions. Therefore the investigation of the writings might throw light upon the motivation for and the methodology of musical racialization and ghettoization in the General Government and the former Polish territories. The interconnection between the Nazi doctrines and the severity of those criminal acts committed subsequently is easier to understand when observed from the perspective of racialization of access to culture, specifically music, and how it was conceded to various groups divided according to racial dogma. Experienced personnel from the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda built the Nazi propaganda system quickly and dexterously closely following the arrival of German troops. Their official goal was to announce present political and military events to the German soldiers and to the population by means of press, loudspeaker vans and posters.