of them visions of inequality ah 75 years ago mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence. what has remained of his vision? where does the world so called the largest democracy stand? where is india headed? this is the moment to unleash or non violent bash. gandhi's legacy stuart august 6th on b. w ah adult hitler, a murderous dictator, driven by hatred and megalomania. ah, but he could be soothed by the shad wagner. the german composer was famous for revolutionizing opera and infamous for his anti semitism.

ah. # what exactly was behind him? there's great admiration. firstly shot fog. now. why was the german nazi dictator such a huge wagner fan? to be sure in german culture, there's not really any getting around wagner to this day, his works are celebrated by thousands every year at the legendary by white festival . and his fans known as back marian's pay him homage worldwide. but hitler's lover, wagner and his work was extreme. why did wagner fascinate him so much? here are 7 reasons. hitler loved heroic tales. wagner's dramatic opera has reflected hitler's view of himself as an all powerful victor. oh, hitler's own dash dreams of becoming an artist. hitler,

josie shakima, as could hitler who always saw himself as an artist, i now felt a kind of aesthetic affinity with richard wagner. wagner. good hitler and wagner were both anti semites, wagner, demonized jews, blaming them for everything that only reinforced hitler's own anti semitism. wagner's by white festival energized hitler ever taught, he considered to borrow a festival. the only vacation he had during the year. hope that god, hitler apparently drew strength from wagner's works. the wagner is we're a surrogate family for hitler killed us. he wasn't the fuor at all. gail feasible, wagner's approach became the soundtrack of dictatorship, nazi party rallies and air rates, and the news reels of german propaganda. they were accompanied by wagner's office

war as a theatrical production. wagner encouraged hitler's megalomania huge orchestra's and riveting harmonies, ah, has ever been breton background music for megalomania, for gross and vaughan, but 1st, who was squished? wagner anyway? born in 1813 and liked, says he's considered both a genius and an ego maniac. his ambition was to recreate opera as a total work of art, what he called because i'm to const back on like most oper, composers. he insisted on writing his own libretto along with the scores and he created bombastic productions. he was the 1st to hide the orchestra down in a pit, and to put the audience in darkness. listening to opera that ran for up to 16 hours . wagner had an imposing festival hall, built him by white, a temple for his music. his opera set new standards and

became world famous. they had wagner died in 1883. but to this day, the composer is still revered by millions. the festival holland, by avoid as the place of pilgrimage for wagnerian, from around the world. for a month, each summer, only wagner's works are performed. wagner, wagner, wagner, nothing but wagner. so back to our question, why did hitler idolized we had fog? let's take a closer look at those 7 reasons. hitler loved germanic heroic sagas, and thought that no one explored them as well as the shunt wagner. ah, listen to me. so i'm on the one hand, of course. there is the music that overwhelming tonal language of the hot wagner, which can penetrate very deeply into the soul. oh, but then there's also the subject matter which is rooted in germanic methods. that

in itself spoke to hitler. but there was also the idea of redemption, result of overcoming adverse reality, ctm reality and on so right now, ancient germanic heroic sagas, staged with powerful imagery. in the legendary 16 our ring of the nibbling godson, men fight over the rhinegold. a material that imparts absolute power. oh, the opera alone, glean revolves around a legendary night fighting for the trust of him. oh, in his book, mine come. he related this sense of awakening at the age of 12. o, as, as the 1st opera of my life lawn green captivated me, immediately my youthful enthusiasm for the by hordes master knew no bounds again and again, i was drawn to his works in 19 o size. hitler attended a production of he and see the tendency towards megalomania,

this village to thought off hitler's childhood friend cubic sec said that after a performance of renzi at the lense, municipal theatre of the 2 climbed up fine bag mountain that night. deacon signed by law and hitler in a kind of rapturous vision under the influence of that performance, who could described his idea for germany's future. caesar leila role as the savior of germany jamante shove, how someone manages to get at least part of the population behind him through speaking rhetoric. that was inspirational for him. da swafford in for business. ha, but the n c's rise ends in an inglorious fall. the people turn against him and the hero dies tragically. is that a suitable role model? doll particular the so hitler said last, i have learned from ramsey's fate. and because ramsey failed, i thought, while he had no power structure, no party behind him does he?

he didn't have a powerful force behind entropy and like hitler later had the brown shirts out of the party in his deal, he had the party, the nazi party, and then the brown shirts last. so he does exactly right what ramsey did wrong, and that's why it can't happen to him. interesting argument. hitler loved heroic figures like lohengrin and pnc and wagner's opera's fuel hitler's quest for power. hitler's damaged artistic dreams found refuge in wagner. long before he plunged europe into war, hitler tried his hand as a painter. it lots he. hitler saw himself primarily as an artist and not necessarily as a politician. hitler twice applied unsuccessfully to the academy of fine arts in vienna. he made ends meet by selling his own watercolor paintings with i've been, may be of he gotten into art school history would have turned out differently. it's useless to contemplate really, but sometimes you do wonder what would have happened if we live in. in 19 o 8,

he tried his hand as a composer attempting to complete wagner's unfinished opera. v. lunde dash meat glo. hitler said i will complete what wagner could not adopt. of course he failed right from the beginning because he had no crowd of thunder. he didn't know how to write music or how to develop it at all. bob was he convicted with no artistic success, frustrated hitler? devoted himself to politics. the failed artist now lived out his passion for culture. as a wagner fan aah! hitler and wagner were both and he suddenly. # was it wounded pride or simply envied that fuel deadly shot wagner's anger toward james as early as $1850.00, he wrote a hate filled pamphlet, title, judaism and music, lamenting what he called the corrosive influence of the jews on german culture for

var than the accusations were that there had been a terrible development in wagner opinion that the jews had gained too much power, guarded by eugene cornerstone. and he claimed it was obvious that jewish composers were innately unproductive zion, that they simply copied what others did for lack of their own creative productivity . were not modern, was under the former wagner's wife, cosima herself, a bitter anti semite, noted wagner's hatred of jews. in her diaries, he says, in violent jest, that all jews should burn in a performance of norton. ah, is this anti semitism reflected in wagner's works? jones might have fish out, he is clear indications, especially in the opera. mice doesn't come in a singing competition. the character of beck mess are things especially poorly and also steals the other singer songs ah

yacht is his home, gosh me in judaism and music. wagner identifies what he calls wailing as a hallmark of synagogue music. talk become human to op, can't he says allah's control. can any one sing like that? that's just offer me here. i think that's what wagner is parodying here. art podium from mark o. b o. 2 in 2017, the violet festival saw its 1st over production by a jewish director. australian very kosky home, right in on the difficult subject matter. in his my sizing on a jewish singer is hunted down. i'm not dealing with jewish culture, i'm dealing with the parody of the anti semitism. and the case of big messer, this idea of the send and bark, ah, the sort of the, that the,

the person who bears all the responsibility or all the calmer or of, of the fault is, is what i think is the important thing. they make him the jew in my collection. and kosky production holds mud accountable. ah, i believe wagner has created his own personal hell. now he's not like 6 of us, rolling that stone up at hill and rolling his personal hell is that he is permanently in a witness box having to justify what he did say or what happened to his music. and that's the position that i think 5 in i'm not sure where he can get out of that bush. yet, wagner continues to be celebrated on a grand scale every year at the bible at festival. an important social event for the rich and famous ah,

an anti semitic propagandist, celebrated as a german genius. for many jewish musicians, that's a provocation. eulley gorgie of the band hoard front was shocked when he came across wagner, anti jewish pamphlet, mackwood. strange that the tempest i thought i must have misunderstood something that is this really the same guy? is this the composer the wagner, the la to us the thing or a sick person with the same name, crow, linden glacier? well, it was the same person like a balloon. wow, bunny, listen to this week. wagner, moody grozis response was to re shaped musical motifs from wagner into a cynical klezmerson about the love of an israeli for a girl from by white. and every no way could then have been good for mrs. wagner and some before me, wagner is a symbol of german anti semitism. nelson studio plasma is also

a stereotype. you and we jews in germany, you, we jewish musicians move somewhere in between for official and listen, we have to live with. it's somehow only been wagner on the one hand of lenders and klezmerson the other as the jewish music. he, utah was the fact that wagner is still celebrated in germany. today. i find that very problematic problem. our p. o. in israel, wagner's music was boycotted for decades. but in 2001, conductor daniel barson been ignored that and played the overture to tristan and decided as an encore in jerusalem a scandal. even now a group of opera musicians and television has ventured its very own exploration, ugly shut partners work. i was speaking with another conductor and israeli conductor. i said i am going to israel seen my 1st time in israel and he said,

oh well hm, what are you doing there? i said it's, it's an opera called kindly and he said, do you have security? do you have a body guard? oh, currently from wagner's oper, parsifal is a heathen who is damned to seduce men for all eternity. here she becomes a goddess. it's a courageous and contemporary approach to wagner. ah ah, once i got there everybody was definitely open to the idea because it started a dialogue about what wagner really means and, and why he's boy cards and everybody had an opinion. israel, some people think they absolutely should plan some people think absolutely not. but

country was a nice way to sort of start dialogue. ah, wagner, the rabid anti semite was a role model for hitler. wagner, bye lloyd energized hitler. louis epicenter, the cult of wagner, is by light in southeastern germany. of course, hitler had to be there. they had wagner had his own festival hall built here exclusively for his opera. he created a family home here named house van fleet. and here he found his final resting place. ah, true, i embarked over you by a voice is to about marius. was what mecca is to a devout muslim, i might be a place you have to go at least once in a lifetime you them to participate in the authentic performance, whole fuel god. tier one has the feeling of being at the heart of the matter itself . suicide de wagner. ja wagnerian otto, hitler came to by jolla for the 1st time,

very early in 1923. yes. tomorrow from then on, hitler regularly came to buy a light in the summer, immersed in a wagnerian frenzy, lasting several days, surrounded by the composer's descendants. wagner's daughter in law vinnie fled, wagner remembered hitler's visits fondly. ah! m. a. talked that he considered the weekend by royce, is his only vacation days in the whole year and as a by what's been north. he enjoyed the time in by royce and generally trying to delegate any tasks that came his way. oh, i mean, haven't tough as well up to here he was celebrated from house van fleet to the festival hall. nothing but jubilation and triumph if stung off my he usually stood in the car or and at the entrance to the festival hole where i

greeted him, he done her voice. dear fellow, be so kind and come to the window, shouted the euphoric crowd than hitler stepped up to the side. there was a royal portal and greeted his onlookers. ah, hitler last visited by a voice in 1940. i hear the wings of the goddess of victory russell. those were his words of farewell. then the war dominated, everything. europe was in ruins, but hitler decided the festival should continue. the performers were exempted from war service. the audience made up of the war wounded wagner for consolation. wagner, for war mora, the wagner were a surrogate family for hitler. # the button or family was entranced by the

fema richard wagner, son in law, houston steward, chamberlain introduced adult hitler to the wagner family. hitler admired chamberlain's racist and anti semitic view. beginning in 1936, hitler moved into the composer's estate for the festival season. in housey creek built by wagner sun here, hitler could spread out and relax a volume with here. he was completely autonomous, but still close to house. bon felicia foreign bond fleet, which had wagner sons, eke fleet, died in 1930. his wife benefit took over as festival director. hitler continued to find a warm free place to stay in kama he actually came here too. i almost want to say to enjoy family life. actually just to see the children in peace. so enjoyed being around the children and they called him uncle voice, especially for the son's voice gung and v land. the dictator was

a kind of surrogate father with visions for the opera, for the festival, and for all of germany. and he demanded a lot from his surrogate son's. ah, yeah. he does. yeah. here the fireplace behind me of i are. hitler was a bit of a pyromaniac when he liked to sit there until the early morning hours, who more v london both gone, always had to listen to his endless monologues as vulcan. wagner told me, lord, they actually wanted to go to bed and sleep better. but they had to keep him company here by here the girl, the gazette after mom and vin of hit, the artist supporter of national socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent friend. ah, ah, well how he wasn't the fuor at all. i never experienced anything for beating about him. that's the strange thing. you know, he had this absolute,

austrian sensibility and warm paddle accent tucked on it. that a mo, after 1945 verified, wagner was put on trial and d, not a vacation proceedings where she had to justify her closeness to hitler, the management of the festival, past to her sons. they tried to salvage what they could and distance themselves from the dark. chapter jennifer had remained true to her beliefs, unapologetically, inviting, old nazi leaders to her house. it might have. yeah. we old national socialists found a new code name after the war one because you couldn't talk about him in public to me. so if we wanted to talk about him, we called him usa, which stood phones azalea at all. i'll bless it at all. the wagner's a true surrogate family for hitler. wagner's music,

the soundtrack of dictatorship, oh, madness, bombastic, music could be used perfectly for hitler's political goals. these enormous, this enormous impact and one as one of the music of the lyrics. the story lines with which you can overwhelm the listeners. mum did to her. that was after all, he got the heart of nazi propaganda and calendar and s. parker. for the opening of the annual party conference. the overture of hitler's beloved degree and see pathos and bombast. lindsey's who didn't boost issue, but if you look at the infamous party congress film by lenae lee finch dawes, triumph of the will. or what al batch bear did with the cathedral of light. fact that almost between those were opera productions deal. newsreel footage of an air raid becomes a heroic performance with the addition of the ride of the val carries this

is the follow all this insincere exalted and melodramatic stock under which the nazis used for their propaganda in a clever way. so you can all be combined quite well with wagner, operas and gum screwed from wagner, composed music with great pathos for hitler, the soundtrack of dictatorship, wagner encouraged hitler's megalomania, hitler's fantasies of redeeming. the german guys were really stirred up by wagner's music. ah, ever been better background music for megalomania? gross vaughan, if you want to have kind of really, really big, grand music. it does kind of fit with those kind fantasies. darkness was listening to wagner's music can sometimes touch deep parts of your soul that you perhaps weren't aware of until then for the existence. i think it's like any drug and

wagner is a drug key that all enjoyed moderation. it can make you healthy. and also in excess it can make you sick because doctors in the 19th century had already suspected this and they attributed a devastating effect to wagner's music, hysteria, madness, and even death. indeed tristan a diesel that in particular let a few people to their griefs. the 1st tristan singer died in 1865, and a so called wagner delirium. in 1911, there was another wagner victim. conductor. felix muttered. he suffered a heart attack during a performance of the opera and died 50 years later. conductor hughes of k about collapsed and died on the same spot. did father's music reinforce hitler's pathological side, a kind of accelerant for hitler sick brain. and how can music be life threatening? i think it's because of the harmonies basically the whole of the can 5 hour long

opera is in some ways are kind of heavily sexualized kind of harmonic trick as the whole of the 2nd act makes you empty. desperate for the musical climax. and that is taken away from the lovers who cannot reach each other. ah figure that dang it down loose. so didn't get the same tension before that the tonic and maybe even waiting for for 5 hours. which point everything to says a little soon side hours of delayed gratification. and when released finally comes, it's in the form of death. it's, it's kind of rather more it combination all eroticism and death. wish that makes wagner kind of her potent and

a little bit scary. the hope for release from earthly suffering. a yearning that hitler also knew well, most of he always had suicidal thoughts up there. and when he was a difficult points with, when he was in danger of failing him off, he would say that he would end it, hold the and brutally shoot himself to she uses that was always one of his light motifs. this any finally carried it out in the bunker. in 1945 will grab any needy topics. and even then wagner played an important part, accompanied by the strains of zeke feeds funeral, march from gutter demolition. the fearless miserable end was announced on the radio . there truly is a dangerous closeness between the 2 men. an association you should be aware of uncommon dot. you can only be a wagnerian with a clear conscience if you're also willing and able to look at the other side of the coin which does exist to the talk. do you see?

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