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‘A joyful place’: a new museum coaxes Austrians to embrace The Sound of Music

Let’s start at the very beginning – famously, a very good place to start.

Just two decades after the second world war, a Hollywood crew descended on Salzburg with stars, show tunes and a compelling, essentially true story of love and opposition to Adolf Hitler: The Sound of Music.

The Austrian city, still economically and morally devastated from the Nazi period, wasn’t quite ready to receive them.


Don’t mention the war.

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