IT was the music the Nazis loved to parade to but the tunes of the Third Reich have since kept a Hampshire company marching along for 21 years.

Brian Matthews, 50, started Winchester’s Tomahawk Films after he spent several years working in television. His previous jobs included being the floor manager on the Channel 4 show, Brookside.

With an interest in the Second World War, he started Tomahawk Films to create documentaries about the conflict.

To accompany the pieces, he assembled a large collection of German music from the era.

He then started to receive inquiries from people who wanted to buy soundtracks.

Mr Matthews said: “Thinking it a touch odd, nevertheless I released a cassette, believing it might sell half a dozen, and it sold in the thousands.

“Before long others followed and Tomahawk was slowly becoming synonymous not for TV productions as I had planned, but for its broadcast-quality Third Reich period music releases.”