cindy can always had to our website that we found a d w dot call. ah, ah, out of 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 hitler's great admiration, firstly shot fog. now, why was the german knotty 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 mark marian's pay him homage worldwide. but hitler's love of wagner and his work was extreme. why did wagner fascinate him so much? here are 7 reasons. hitler loved heroic tales. wagner's dramatic oper as reflected hitler's view of himself as an all powerful victor, o hitler's own dashed dreams of becoming an artist. hitler, josie shakima. as could hitler who always saw himself as an artist, i know, 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, by white festival energized hitler ever taught,

he considered the borrowed festival. the only vacation he had during the year did. yeah, hitler apparently drew strength from wagner. works the wagner is we're a surrogate family for hitler killed us. he wasn't the fuor at all. gail 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 cautious? wagner, anyway? born in 1813 in leipzig. he is considered both a genius and any go maniac. his ambition was to recreate opera as

a total work of art with he called because i'm to const back on like most oper composers. he insisted on writing his own ma bretty 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 hall. and 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 had wagner?

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 hunt wagner. ah, this was meant to be some island 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 myth, was that in itself spoke to hitler. but there was also the idea of redemption lose all of overcoming adverse reality. so d m reality on so right. wow. 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 lohengrin revolves around a legendary night fighting for the trust of his beloved elsa. it made hitler wagner fan in 19 o one. o in his book, mine come. he related the 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 horse master knew no bounds again and again i was drawn to his works. in 19 o 5, hitler attended a production of he and see wagner's opera about a brave roman politician who wants to save his people. it encouraged hitler's tendency towards megalomania. this village did not 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 at night. deacon signed by law and hitler on in a kind of rapturous vision under the influence of that performance who could

described his idea for germany's future. these are the n c o fuel a simple man of the people who wants to save the roman empire from decadence. hitler saw himself in a similar role as the savior of germany. jamante shove, how someone manages to get at least part of the population behind him, through speaking rhetoric, christmas, or whatever that was inspirational for him. da swafford in forbes. ah, 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? okay, doll particular the so hitler said last, i have learned from ramsey's fate and because ramsey failed, i thought, well, he had no power structure, no party behind him, does he? he didn't have a powerful force behind lpa 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 low incline and pnc and wagner's opera's fuel hitler's quest for power . hitler's damaged artistic dreams found refuge and wagner long before he plunged europe into war. hitler tried his hand as a painter. he nazi 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 need 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 311 in 19 o 8, he tried his hand as a composer attempting to complete wagner's unfinished opera. the land dash neat.

little hitler said i will complete what wagner could not have talked to. of course he failed right from the beginning because he had no craft on her. 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, hitler and wagner were both and he suddenly. # was it wounded pride or simply envied that fuel to be shut wagner's anger toward james as early as $1850.00? he wrote a hate filled pamphlet titled judaism and music, lamenting what he called the corrosive influence of the jews on german culture for over varden. the accusations were that there had been

a terrible development in wagner's opinion that the jews had gained too much power god to bye eugene components. 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 muffin 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 old jews should burn in a performance of not, ah, is this anti semitism reflected in wagner's works, yet might have fish or he is clear indications, especially in the opera. my sizing young 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 our plant. he says, all is control. can any one sing like that? that's just offer me here. i think that's what wagner is parodying here. hot podium from mark. oh oh. in 2017. the violet festival saw it's 1st of her production by a jewish director. australian very kosky home, right in on the difficult subject matter. in his, my singer 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 bach, ah, the sort of the, that the person who bears all the responsibility or all the trauma or almost the

fault is, is what i think is the important thing, they make him, the jew in my collection and cost his production holds not accountable. ah, i believe wagner has created his own personal hell. now he's not like sis office rolling that stone up that 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 violet 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's anti jewish pamphlet. mackwood, strange that the compass f. i thought i must have misunderstood something. that is this really the same guy? is this the composer the wagner, your law, that the thing or a sick person with the same name, crow, linden glacier? well, it was the same person like a balloon, while bonham to do this week. wagner, moody, gorgeous response was to re shaped musical motifs from wagner into a cynical klezmerson about the love of an israeli for a girl from by voice. and every man awake, then i think that you are pharmacists. and so before me, wagner is a symbol of german anti semitism. often studio plasma is also a stereotype. newton and we jews in germany. you, we jewish musicians move somewhere in between for that's fission. listen,

we have to live with. it's somehow only been wagner on the one hand of learners and klezmerson the other as the jewish music, guillotine was it, the fact that wagner is still celebrated in germany today? i find that very problematic problem, artist 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 oper, musicians, and tell him he has ventured its very own exploration of the sharpness work. i was speaking with another conductor on an israeli conductor. i said, ongoing israel still my 1st time in israel and he said, oh, well i am, what are you doing there? i said it's an oper called currently and he said, do you have security? do you have a body guard?

the country from wagner oper? party fund is a heathen who is damned to seduce man for all eternity. here she becomes a god, it, it's a courageous and contemporary approach to wagner. me? oh, the once i got there everybody would definitely open to the idea because starting a dialogue about what wagner really means and, and why he's boy carded and everybody had an opinion. israel, some people think they absolutely should play it. some people think absolutely not . but country was a nice way to sort of star dialogue. oh, wagner, the rabid anti semite was

a role model for hitler douglas by light energized hitler. # the epicenter of the cult to 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 offers. he created a family home here named house vaughan fleet. and here he found his final resting place. ah, who i and barton of the bio voice is too about marius, was from 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. here one has the feeling of being at the heart of the matter itself . suicide de wagner. beyond the wagnerian auto hitler came to buy void for the 1st time. very early in 1923. yes. to bought from men on hitler regularly came to buy

light in the summer, immersed in a bug nary and 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 roy is his only vacation days in the whole year. and as a by what's been mostly he enjoyed the time in by royce and generally tried to delegate any tasks that came his way. oh god, i mean hancock as well up to shoot. here he was celebrated from house van fleet to the festival hall. nothing but jubilation and triumph if stump of my he usually stood in the car or and at the entrance to the festival hole where i greeted him. he oh dear sheila be so kind and come to the

window, shouted d for a crowd than hitler stepped up to the side window of the royal portal and greeted his onlookers. hitler last visited by lloyd 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 moron. the wagner were a surrogate family for hitler. # the button or family was entranced by the fema leash at 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 cleat built by wagner sun here hitler could spread out and relax about yahoo! with here he was completely autonomous, but still close to house band played foreign bond fleet, which had wagner sons. equally died in 1930, his wife had took over as festival director. hitler continued to find a warm free place to stay. in calmer, he actually came here to, i only want to say to enjoy family life. actually just to see the children didn't pay so enjoyed being around the children and they called him uncle voice. especially for the son's voice gung and violent. 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 locked from his surrogate sons. he did you hear the fireplace behind me of i, hitler was a bit of a pyromaniac. he liked to sit there until the early morning hours, who had 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 on my hear the good news h aftermarket and vin. if hit the artist supporter of national socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent friend. ah, ha, ha, ha ha. he wasn't the fuor at all. how can i never experienced anything for beating about him? that's the strange thing. you know, he had this absolute, austrian sensibility and warm hall access tucked on that a mo,

after 1945 verified, wagner was put on trial in d notification 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 off to the war form 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 mazin, 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 honda and s parker ah. for the opening of the annual party conference, the overture of hitler's beloved gillian c. pathos and bombast. lindsay sh to boost dish and put if you look at the infamous party congress film by then he leaf inch dawes triumph of the will. or what i'll bet spare 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 for law all this insincere exalted and melodramatic stock under which the nazis used for their propaganda. in a clever way, assistance can all be combined quite well with wagner. opera's guns good for ben. 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 started up by wagner's music. ever been better background music or megalomania. grossman vaughan, if you want to have kind of re, really big, grand music it does kind of fit with those kind of fantasies. darkness moves, listening to wagner. 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 it moderation, it can make you healthy,

and also in excess. it can make you sick. can 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, the in particular let a few people to their grieves. the 1st tristan singer died in 1865, and a so called wagner delirium. in 1911, there was another wagner, victor, conductor, felix murphy. 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 sexualize kind of harmonic trick as the

whole of the 2nd act makes you empty. desperate for the musical climax. and then it's taken away from her, the lovers who cannot reach each other. figure that back down. so didn't get the same tension as before. that the toner busy been waiting for the 5 hours. which point everything to says a little. soon, 5 hours of delayed gratification and when released finally, tons, it's in the form of death, is, is kind of rather morbid, combination of 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 to it when he was a difficult points was 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 toppers. and even then, wagner played an important part, accompanied by the strains of zeke feeds funeral march from gutter them alone. 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. d. c o cubed is going to mel for i can imagine dealing with wagner like with cigarettes, with

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