Walter Meyer wrote:

>Ramiro Arguello wrote:
>
>>Murderers are not usually classical music fans and much less Bach
>>enthusiast.
>
>I have no direct knowledge of this but I understand that concentration
>quite a few camp officers and guards went home after clocking out from
>their grisly work and listened to, and also played, the music of Bach
>and Schubert and Mozart, among others.

And apparently deputy fuhrer Reinhard Heydrich (whose assassination in
1941 led to particularly bloody reprisals in what was once Yugoslavia)
was a very good violinist.

Deryk Barker
dbarker @camosun.bc.ca