Song of Buchenwald : A novel about the great Austrian composer Franz Lehar and Adolf Hitler by James Walker

In 1905, a sixteen-year-old Austrian boy falls in love with the music of his compatriot Franz Leh?r when he attends the premiere of Leh?r's operetta `The Merry Widow'. The boy dreams of becoming an artist in Vienna, has no great interest in politics and shows no signs of anti-Semitism. His name is Adolf Hitler. Inspired by real events, `Song of Buchenwald' vividly portrays Hitler's transformation into a murderous, racist fanatic, and Vienna's degeneration into a hotbed of extremism and hate, where Leh?r's Jewish wife Sophie and his Jewish colleagues - including the great librettist Fritz L?hner-Beda - find themselves in grave and constant danger. Yet one fact remains unchanged: Hitler is still a great admirer of Leh?r's music. Can Leh?r use this to persuade Hitler to spare Sophie a
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