Prisoners are forced to give company to fellow sufferers with happy music to execution at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Yet it's also been used to facilitate torture and punishment, a topic I think is worth exploring. Beautiful music accompanying murder and rape is a bizarre and disturbing juxtaposition. Photo / APWine, murder and songThe fusion of alcohol, music and song with mass murder shows how violence was normalised – even celebrated – by the Nazis. Ultimately, genocide is a societal endeavour; music and song – like political philosophies – are part of a society's cultural artifacts.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 13, 2021 03:02 UTC