young vili bartz never got to tell his own life story but his boyhood friend rudolf miller preserved some of it for us 80 years ago in december 1940 rudolf and villi performed in a concert held to mark the day of german family music years ago wrote down his memories of that day. viewpoints after. villa came after me in the concert. although like i said he wasn't a member of the hitler youth club this evening he wore the uniform the brown shirt was the belt and shoulder strap and the black tie he was almost a bit defiant as he entered in the auditorium adjusted the music stand to the correct height and tuned his violin without haste so his friend was the same age and was already waiting to accompany him on the piano they performed a piece by bach to nod entitled. villi didn't seem to be nervous hardly at all the movements of his upper body were smooth and as the piece ended on a long note he looked over to his partner on the piano who nodded in approval of his and forth i could die then when the audience began to applaud loudly he had 1st looked helplessly to the side and then left in