´óÏó´«Ã½

In April 1945, as Berlin laid in ruins at the end of WW2, the Nazis chose to stage one extraordinary last concert.

The music was carefully chosen – a piece by Hitler’s favourite composer Richard Wagner, from the opera Götterdämmerung.

The immolation scene – depicting the world of the gods destroyed by fire – seemed a perfect mirror to the Third Reich as it too went up in flames.