Different Drummers: Jazz in the Culture of Nazi GermanyWhen the African American dancer Josephine Baker visited Berlin in 1925, she found it dazzling. The city had a jewel like sparkle, she said, the vast cafs reminded me of ocean liners powered by the rhythms of their orchestras. There was music everywhere. Eager to look ahead after the crushing defeat of World War I, Weimar Germany embraced the modernism that swept through Europe and was crazy over jazz. But with the rise of National Socialism came