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I'm currently reading Hitler's First Victims and while I knew Nazism was gaining power in the early 1930's, I didn't actually know that the systemic murder of Jews began this early, nor that anyone in the legal apparatus at the time tried to stop it, so this was heartening in a way even though they didn't ultimately succeed.
There are a lot of parallels with what's happening now under Donald Trump, particularly the intentional destruction of the rule of law, which made the establishment of Dachau and the ~~kidnapping~~ indefinite imprisonment and murder of Jewish political prisoners possible.
One of the most well know and influential anti Nazi songs of the era The Peat Bog Soldiers was composed in 1933 as well.
Even years before the outbreak of war in Europe these camps had already had a storied history.
I'm an old musician, who remembers the role that musicians played in the Vietnam War Resistance. The current population music industry would never allow their artists to be so openly resistant today.
So I've been looking for music to revive, and create a soundtrack for the growing resistance. This might be a good one.
It's also time to revive all those good old protest folk songs by Woody Guthrie and the like. Songs like This Land Is Your Land.
Bands like Rise Against and System of a Down got a lot of air time around the Iraq war, and could go back to 90s with Rage against the Machine and the late punk bands - but I've definitely precieved an industry shift towards promoting music that celebrates apathy and embracing futility in recent years.
One of my favorites is Stephen Foster's Hard Times, Come Again No More (1873):