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Jump to: navigation, search   British listeners heard the band
every Wednesday and Saturday at about 9 pm. The importance of
the band in the propaganda war was underscored by a BBC survey
released after World War II, which indicated that that 26.5
percent of all British listeners had at some point heard
programmes from Germany.[1] The Propaganda Ministry also
distributed their music on 78 rpm records to POW camps and
occupied countries.   During the 1930s there was a great demand
in Germany for jazz music, especially swing (which included
elements of the big band sound). However, such African and
American influences were viewed as counter to goals of German
racial purity; by 1935 they were outlawed, and the Nazis
informally labeled it as Negermusik. An underground jazz scene,
however, persisted in Berlin. Here bandleader Lutz Templin and
drummer Fritz Brocksieper brought together key swing figures of
the late 1930s, including singer Karl Schwedl