"Kater...has done prodigious primary research, much of it in hitherto unexamined files, to emerge with a mountain of fresh material....Anyone seriously interested in the interface of art and a peculiarly threatening political culture will find [this book] endlessly fascinating."--Publishers Weekly"[Gives] more analytical attention to the entire [Nazi] era's secrets. Kater...has combed newspaper archives, studied economic statistics,
interviewed surviving composers and meticulously correlated information from denazification proceedings. His account...is the most thorough and nuanced now available of Nazi musical alliances, allegiances and
ambiguities....[B]rings us to a more complicated understanding without tolerating latent defenses of old friends or "Vissi d'Arte alibis." --New York Times Book Review