30/12/2025
Mozart would be rolling in his grave...
This is a historical document from the darkest chapter in our country’s past. It was hidden in a box filled with piano classics by Beethoven, Mozart, etc. that we received along with an old Pianola, located since the 1920s in Berlin. Someone once used this post/signature folder to store Mozart sonatas — and also the N**i fighter pilots’ song. Unbelievable. According to Wikipedia, the leadership of the newly established Reich Air Ministry (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) was handed over to Hermann Göring in April 1933. Its primary task was the illegal rearmament and the creation of the German Luftwaffe. Göring became one of the principal war criminals, convicted on all counts by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg and sentenced to death. Even though most documents of this kind were destroyed in Germany in early 1945 to hide guilt and complicity, pieces like this still manage to resurface. These artifacts remind us of the responsibility we bear — and of what we must prevent for all time.
