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The Jewish Trumpeter Who Survived the Holocaust by Playing Jazz for the Nazis
Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers.
Born in the Czech city of Brno in 1918, where he lived until the beginning of World War II, Eric Vogel was a jazz enthusiast and accomplished amateur trumpet player. Although official Nazi propaganda denounced jazz as a degenerate art form associated with Jews and blacks, a number of SS officers nonetheless were avid listeners. One such officer had encountered Vogel at a jazz club and, after the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, took him under his protection. Amanda Petrusich describes what followed:
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The Jewish Trumpeter Who Survived the Holocaust by Playing Jazz for the Nazis
Eric Vogel and the Ghetto Swingers.