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View of the concert audience during a performance of Wagner by the Leipzig orchestra, conducted by Dr. Carl Muck.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 83795

View of the concert audience during a performance of Wagner by the Leipzig orchestra, conducted by Dr. Carl Muck.

Pictured in the front row of the audience is Adolf Hitler (on the aisle). Sitting next to him from right to left are Dr. Gordeler (mayor of Leipzig), Winnifred Wagner (daughter-in-law of composer Richard Wagner), her son Wieland Wagner, Reichsminister Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, President of the Reich Supreme Court Erwin Bumke, and Mrs. Bumke. On the other side of the aisle in the front row, from left to right are Reichsminister Hermann Goering (partially obscured by podium), and Reichsminister of Interior Wilhelm Frick.

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Caption: View of the concert audience during a performance of Wagner by the Leipzig orchestra, conducted by Dr. Carl Muck.

Pictured in the front row of the audience is Adolf Hitler (on the aisle). Sitting next to him from right to left are Dr. Gordeler (mayor of Leipzig), Winnifred Wagner (daughter-in-law of composer Richard Wagner), her son Wieland Wagner, Reichsminister Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk, President of the Reich Supreme Court Erwin Bumke, and Mrs. Bumke. On the other side of the aisle in the front row, from left to right are Reichsminister Hermann Goering (partially obscured by podium), and Reichsminister of Interior Wilhelm Frick.
Photographer: The New York Times
Date: 1933 - 1940
Locale: Leipzig, [Saxony] Germany
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

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Photo Source: National Archives and Records Administration, College Park

Copyright: Public Domain

Source Record ID: 306-NT-864

Keywords & Subjects

Keyword: BUMKE, ERWIN CONCERTS FRICK, WILHELM GERMANS GOERING, HERMANN HEADS OF STATE HITLER, ADOLF INTERIORS MUCK, CARL MUSICIANS/INSTRUMENTS NAZI OFFICIALS ORCHESTRAS/BANDS PERFORMANCES/PERFORMERS SCHWERIN VON KROSIGK, LUTZ SPECTATORS/AUDIENCES/BYSTANDERS WAGNER, WIELAND WAGNER, WINNIFRED
Photo Designation: NAZISM - GERMANY (1933-1945) -- Cultural Affairs -- Concerts

Record last modified:: 2007-04-09 00:00:00
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