"They are the voice of the Lager, the perceptible expression of its geometrical madness, of the resolution of others to annihilate us first as men in order to kill us more slowly afterwards."  Primo Levi, a famous holocaust survivor, once said this about the camp bands of Auschwitz.  He talks about the Nazi's systematic use of music as a propaganda tool, as well as a medium, to demoralize prisoners.  The atmosphere created by the rhythmic and provocative beats of the camp's marching music, accompanied with the melancholy realization of the grim reality of the death camp, Auschwitz, is horrifically palpable.  The camp band is talked about in Art Spiegelman's book "Maus"; Art asks his father if he remembers the camp band, Vladek says, "NO, I REMEMBER ONLY MARCHING, NOT ANY  ORCHESTRAS..." (Spiegelman, 54)  The systematic use of music has made Vladek numb, the atrocities of Auschwitz have disassociated him from even music, leaving him a hollow, hollow, carcass of a man.  An image of the band is shown, and then shown again with a mass of worker prisoners walking in front of the orchestra covering them like a really uncomfortable blanket.  Art draws this to show how everything but the primitive necessities to survival dimmed to just senseless background noise mixing in and out of the confusion under the mortifying conditions of auschwitz.