This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...

Music probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Nazi Germany. But the fascist regime went after jazz in a weirdly obsessive & fearful way, through laws and restrictions.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Max Raabe of the Palast Orchester, which keeps pre-World War II German jazz alive for modern audiences. In the 1920s and 30s, jazz was taking off in the United States and ...