How Django Reinhardt Survived World War II
by lisa,
Reinhardt was a Roma or “gypsy” and a jazz musician. During World War II both gypsies and jazz musicians were targeted by the Nazi regime. Over a million gypsies were exterminated for presumed racial inferiority and jazz was believed to combine the worst of Blacks and Jews (i.e., “musical race defilement”). Just listening to a jazz record could get you sent to a concentration camp..........
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