Reichsmusikkammer
![Nazi propaganda against jazz music. Translation: Degenerate Music: A Reckoning by Undersecretary Dr. H. S. Ziegler](/Images/godic/202502/06/Entartete_musik_poster2348.jpg")
![1935 Reichsmusikkammer decree to the Berlin musician Werner Liebenthal dictating the immediate cessation of his professional activity.](/Images/godic/202502/06/Reichsmusikkammer10012348.jpg")
The Reichsmusikkammer (translatable variously as "Reich Music Chamber," "State Music Institute," or "State Music Bureau") was a Nazi institution. It promoted "good German music" which was composed by Aryans and seen as consistent with Nazi ideals, while suppressing other, "degenerate" music, which included atonal music, jazz, and music by Jewish composers. The Institute was founded in 1933 by Joseph Goebbels and the Reichskulturkammer (State Bureau of Culture), and it operated until the fall of the Third Reich in 1945.