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- Guernseymuseum
- People in story:听
- Michael Couch
- Location of story:听
- Weighbridge, Guernsey
- Article ID:听
- A5136239
- Contributed on:听
- 17 August 2005
MUSICAL CENSORSHIP.
Dad said that when concerts were planned, the programmes had to be scrutinized by the Germans, for only the music of composers thought friendly towards Germany, could be played. British and American composers were definitely not de rigueur.
Crowds would gather to hear German military bands. On one such occasion, near the White Rock Weighbridge, during the interlude, the audience was addressed and asked to the effect, "Having heard this wonderful German music, who here is still proud to be British?" to which a sea of hands was raised. Some months later in the SIGNAL - a glossy German magazine, which circulated throughout occupied Europe - a picture was shown, with the caption, 'British crowds in London, saluting Hitler.' Of course, the picture had been taken against the background of the firm 'George Munroe Ltd., London.'
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