Returning to international events following a COVID break, the New York Philharmonic's concerts at the Usedom Music Festival are held in a location where Nazi weapons of terror were built.
He and his family escaped the Nazis. His music will now be played where Hitler’s regime tested its weapons. The New York Philharmonic in an event a decade in the making will hold three performances next week at the Usedom Music Festival, which presents concerts in the turbine hall of the Peenemünde Power Station in Germany. Peenemünde…
The New York Philharmonic is set to take up residency at the Usedom Music Festival, once the secretive home of the Third Reich’s rocket and nuclear development program.
Peenemünde, formerly the development site of ballistic missiles and V1 and V2 rockets, was built in 1936 in order to help Hitler in his quest to control the world. Peenemünde: a dreaded place where thousands of people were enslaved and murdered under the orders of future chief of booster development at NASA Wernher von Braun, and military advisor General Walter Dornberger.