Desc: Music in Nazi Germany - The maestro and the cellist of Auschwitz: Directed by Christian Berger. With Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, Kathrin Ackermann, Thomas Ackermann, Daniel Barenboim. Why was classical music so important to Hitler and Goebbels? The stories of Jewish cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, who survived Auschwitz, and of star conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who worked with the Nazis, provide insight. The film centers around two people who represent musical culture during the Third Reich - albeit in very different ways. Wilhelm Furtwängler was a star conductor; Anita Lasker-Wallfisch, the cellist of the infamous Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz. Both shared a love for the classical German music.