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Russian composers were music to Hitler's ears

Adolf Hitler's newly discovered record collection has revealed that he listened in private to the Jewish musicians and Russian composers branded "subhuman" by his regime.

The Nazi dictator's musical tastes have been revealed after nearly 100 of his gramophone discs were found in a dacha outside Moscow.

For the most part, the collection is fairly predictable - dominated by recordings of Wagner, Beethoven and Bruckner. But a sprinkling of Tchaikovsky, Borodin and Rachmaninoff has amazed historians.
Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)