The history of German military music from the Middle Ages to the Musikkorps
of the modern Bundeswehr, but with the focus on 1933-1945 Wehrmacht and SS *
Will appeal to the military music enthusiast and Third Reich collector/historian
* Chapters detail: the training and lives of musicians * Documents their musical
instruments * Illustrates their uniforms * Profile of a famous SS-Musikmeister *
Chronicles the military composers * Examines the Wehrmacht bands based on the
British Channel Islands * Traces the "Lili Marleen" story * Looks at life on the
German Home Front, with its fledgling radio and recording industry, before
reaching the dying days of the Reich and the fate of the musicians * Seventy of
the most famous military song lyrics * Post-war music of East Germany's National
Volksarmee and today's military bands of a reunified Germany.
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