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Rediscovering Suppressed Musical Treasures of the Twentieth Century Rediscovering Suppressed Musical Treasures of the Twentieth Century Recovering a Musical Heritage The Music Suppressed by the Third Reich By James Conlon 147Who shall absolve the foulness of their fate133Those doomed conscripted unvictorious ones. 148 Siegfried Sassoon After 1945 those who performed wrote or taught classical music worked in a culture scarred by omissions. These were not of their making but were part of the legacy of atrocities committed by Nazi Germany. With its racist ideology and systematic suppression particularly although not exclusively of Jewish musicians artists and writers the Third Reich silenced two generations of composers and with them an entire musical heritage.