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> There are millions of people in the world who believe that Goebbels introduced the tuning to make people feel more anxious. That's absurd. It's more likely
by anoncake 7y ago
> There are millions of people in the world who believe that Goebbels introduced the tuning to make people feel more anxious.
That's absurd.
It's more likely Goebbels did that to demonstrate that Germany was no longer bound to Article 282 (22) of the Treaty of Versailles, which forced it to accept the 435hz standard.
See: Jerry L. Weinstein, Musical Pitch and International Agreement. The American Journal of International Law
Vol. 46, No. 2 (Apr., 1952), pp. 341-343, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2194075 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2194075