Hitler’s Approach to Esthetics Let’s try to kill off poetry and art
Of every kind, yes, even music too.
The surest way to do this is to part
The artists from their hearts. If one’s a Jew,
It won’t be quite enough for him to choose
To be a Christian. He must also leave
Behind him all his Jewish blood. The blues
Of black men must be stripped of blackness, cleave
To whiteness, real white whiteness, not revamped
By Gershwin or some other Hebrew not
Quite white. Not Aryan? It must be stamped
On till it loses every colored blot.
Rewrite the Wedding March of Mendelssohn
Until it tastes of nothing but the Hun.
