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This book is an insightful new biography of Joseph Goebbels, Propaganda Minister of the Third Reich and one of the most important and troubling figures of the twentieth century. The first account to use all of Goebbels' surviving diaries, it sheds new light on his personality, private life and political convictions, as well as his relationship with Hitler.

There is an assumption that two separate musical cultures emerged in East and West alongside the division of Germany into two states. This book challenges these assumptions, asking how and why music was controlled in Germany under Allied Occupation from 1945-1949, and in the early years of 'semi-sovereignty' between 1949 and 1955