When the United States entered the war in 1941, all American music was banned, although this was difficult to enforce, and some radio programmes continued to broadcast it.
This is not to say that jazz survived without a fight. Initially, the Nazis were highly suspicious. Even before Hitler came to power, conservative Germans had banned foreign music, of which jazz was the epitome. When the United States entered the war in 1941, all American music was banned, although this was difficult to enforce, and some radio programmes continued to broadcast it. In general, Germans were tolerant to jazz because it was believed that Nazi propaganda would be better received if it was surrounded by popular music programmes.