Sonderstab Musik : music confiscations by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg under the Nazi occupation of Western Europe

Met reg. - Bibliografie : p. 259-264 Examination of the part played by Alfred Rosenberg in German music policy in the period after 1933. The author describes the activities of the 'Sonderstab Musik' in France, Belgium and the Netherlands. Its task was to locate music manuscripts, books and instruments. Its initial task was to locate the possessions of Jewish musicians and composers who had fled the Nazi regime. At a later stage there was a general confiscation and removal of Jewish possessions. Met lit. opg., index. 271 p. : ill. ; 25 cm