Music Under the Swastika - The Maestro and the Cellist of Auschwitz
Original title: Klassik unterm Hakenkreuz: Der Maestro und die Cellistin von Auschwitz
0.020221h 26mDE
Directed by Christian Berger
The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.
