While watching the MTV awards, some of the sound felt like torture and made me intuitively think about Joseph Mangele and concentration camps, so I asked AI if Mangele was into music and choreography. Dance was absolutely not confirmed, but lo and behold Mangele was very much into music, played the violin for children before experimenting on them, and forced prisoners to play in orchestras, sending dogs to attack them if they hit the wrong notes. Among many other things…
I am just going to leave this here. Will keep digging on the dancing, but so far I’m relieved it is not mentioned. If you haven’t noticed, we landed in hell. Not sure how, but maybe
https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mp/9460447.0010.103/–how-can-music-be-torturous-music-in-nazi-concentration?rgn=main;view=fulltext
here is a citation:
“Primo Levi, in what is one of the most prominent written accounts of life in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, recounted an incident he witnessed in the infirmary there:
The beating of the big drums and the cymbals reach us continuously and monotonously, but in this weft the musical phrases weave a pattern only intermittently, according to the caprices of the wind. The tunes are few, a dozen, and the same ones every day, morning and evening: marches and popular songs dear to every German. They lie engraven on our minds and will be the last thing in the Lager that we shall forget: they are the voice of the Lager, the perceptible expression of its geometrical madness, of the resolution of others to annihilate us first as men in order to kill us more slowly afterwards.[1]“