Charlie and His Orchestra

"... Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, assembled a fairly competent swing band called Charlie and His Orchestra to perform Nazified versions of the jazz hits of the day. Led by an English speaking German, Karl Schwendler, Charlie and His Orchestra broadcast on the medium-wave and short-wave bands throughout the 1930s to Canada, the US and Britain.
The idea was to lure the masses in with the irrestible tonic of swing music and, and slyly work the anti-Jewish, American and British lyrics in only after the second or third verse. The broadcasts of Charlie and His Orchestra were not available in the Fatherland proper, but that only enhanced their legend and they picked up an underground following in Germany as well. ..."

Read the whole post over at WFMU's Beware of the Blog and download all the 22 mp3s of Vol 1. This is interesting stuff.