New York – Hitler listened to Jewish composers.

New York- Despite describing Jewish musicians and Russian composers as “subhuman,” and claiming that Jewish art “never existed,” Adolf Hitler listened to their music in secret, it was reported Tuesday.

The recently-revealed record collection of the “Fuhrer” showed that he listened in private to Tchaikovsky, Borodin, and Rachmaninoff. Also discovered was, most surprisingly, a Tchaikovsky violin concerto featuring the violinist Bronislaw Huberman, a Polish Jew who was officially declared an enemy of the Third Reich and who fled Vienna in 1937.

The Guardian reported that several of the records were worn and scratched from frequent use.

The collection was discovered by Lev Bezymensky, a Jewish Soviet intelligence officer, who had been ordered to search the Reich Chancellery shortly after Berlin fell to the Soviets in May 1945. [ap]