Music in Nazi-Occupied Poland between 1939 and 1945

Abstract

The paper is a survey of research on music in territories of occupied Poland conducted by the author in recent years, as well as a review of selected existing literature on this topic. A case study illustrates a principal thesis of this essay according to which music was used by the German Nazis in the General Government as a key elements of propaganda and in appropriation of conquered territories as both physical and symbolic spaces.

Keywords

• propaganda
• general government
• genocide
• cracow
• warsaw
• music
• 1939–1945
• holocaust