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Charlie and his Orchestra (also referred to as the "Templin band" and "Bruno and His Swinging Tigers") were a Nazi-sponsored German propaganda swing band. Jazz music styles were seen by Nazi authorities as rebellious, but ironically propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels conceived of using the style in shortwave radio broadcasts aimed at the United States and particularly the United Kingdom.

British listeners heard the band every Wednesday and Saturday at around 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 English listeners had, at some point, heard programmes from Germany. The Propaganda Ministry also distributed their music on 78 rpm records to POW camps and occupied countries.


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