Prisoners are forced to play music as they lead a fellow prisoner to his execution at the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Votava/Imagno via Getty Images March 12, 2021 How the Nazis used music to celebrate and facilitate murder Edward B. Westermann, Texas A&M University-San Antonio Music is supposed to transcend the mundane and horrific. Yet it has also served as an accompaniment to torture and punishment.
