Hitler The Musical Hypocrite? Not So Fast.

Alex Ross isn’t so sure that the discovery of Hitler’s personal record collection really proves that the Führer was a big fan of Russian music. “The fact that Hitler owned such records does not mean that he enjoyed them,” and there’s simply too much evidence that Hitler believed strongly in his own propaganda regarding the superiority of German music to draw the conclusion that he was secretly reveling in the pleasures of Tchaikovsky.