A new joke going the rounds in Germany since Hitler’s latest speech to the Reichstag (which meets in the Kroll Opera House, in Berlin) has reached the B.B.C’s. European section:—A discussion arose among some opera “fans” as to whe were the most highly-paid opera singers in Germany today. A wag suggc sted it was “a certain chorus whose members each received an annual fee of about R.M. 10.000 (more than £1000), with first-class travel vouchers and hotel accommodation, for appearing no more than twice a year and singing only two songs—‘Deutschland Über Alles’ and the ‘Horst Wessel Lied.’” “What!” exclaimed one of his hearers, “which chorus?” “The Reichstag,” was the answer.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1942, Page 4
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