well, africa suits these issues and share ideas. ah, you know, are live channels. we are not of grades in fact and delicate tub africans population is growing fast. and young people clearly have the solution that future long as 77 percent every weekend on d w ah adult hitler, a murderous dictator, driven by hatred and megalomania. ah. but he could be soothed by the chad wagner. the german composer was famous for revolutionizing opera and infamous for his anti semitism. ah.

# ah, what exactly was behind hit those great admiration, firstly shot fog now? why was the german nazi dictator such a huge wagner found 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 oper as reflected hitler's view of himself as an all powerful victor. o hitler's own dash of becoming an artist. hitler, guys,

he shut them off. i screwed hitler, who always saw himself as an artist. i know i felt a kind of aesthetic affinity with richard wagner. wagner. good hitler and wagner. what both anti semite, wagner, demonized jews blaming them for everything that only reinforced hitler's own anti semitism. wagner's by white festival energized hitler ever. he considered the borrowed festival. the only vacation he had during the year hitler apparently drew strength from wagner's works. the wagner is we're a surrogate family for hitler could tell us, he wasn't the food or at all day, a feasible. wagner's approach became a 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 better background music for megalomania. for gross and von that 1st, who was shout wagner. anyway. born in 1813 in leipzig. he's 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 const back on like most oper composers. he insisted on writing his own the 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 operate that ran for up to 16 hours. wagner had an imposing festival hall built him by hoyt, a temple for his music. his opera new standards and

became world famous. ah, 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 am 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,

watched that in itself, spoke to hitler. but there was also the idea of redemption, the result of overcoming adverse reality. city of them really didn't on so right. ha, 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 low in green, 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 comes. he related the sense of awakening at the age of 12. o, as, as the 1st opera of my life lawn, glean 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 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. caesar, 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 for business. oh,

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? hey, doll, particular the so hitler said most 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. 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 and clean 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. he dotsie 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. lund dash neat. little hitler said i will complete. what wagner could not go off? 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 deeply shot 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 varden. the accusations were that there had been a terrible development in wagner opinion that the jews had gained too much power. god to bye. you didn't go punishments 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 old jews should burn in a performance of na. ah,

is this anti semitism reflected in wagner's works? yonce might have fish, or he is clear indications, especially in the opera mice dozing on 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 alice 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 o. b o . in 2017, the violet festival saw its 1st ever production by a jewish director. australian very kosky home,

right in on the difficult subject matter. in his my stairs, in 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 all the calmer are 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 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. 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's anti jewish pamphlet. mackwood, strange that the tempest, i thought i must have misunderstood something. mr. 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. spun into this into this week,

wagner moving 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 every no week. then i think for mrs. wagner and some 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 the fact that wagner is still celebrated in germany. today. i find that very problematic problem. in israel, wagner's music was boycotted for decades, but in 2001, conductor daniel batten been ignored that and played the overture to tristan indies lloyd as an unclear in jerusalem

a scandal even now a group of oper, musicians and televi has ventured its very own exploration emily shut wagner 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'm, what are you doing there? i said it's an opera called country. and he said, do you have security? do you have a body guard? the country from partners upper party 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. me . oh, the once i got there everybody was

definitely open to the idea because started 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. that was by light energized hitler. the epicenter of the cult 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 van fleet. and here he found his final resting place. ah true, i embark wi

a 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 yod, tier one has the feeling of being at the heart of the matter itself. suicide de wagner. beyond the wagnerian otto, hitler came to by void for the 1st time, very early in 1923. yes. tomorrow. from then on, hitler regularly came to by white 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 week in by royce, is his only vacation days in the whole year. add as a by what the notion he enjoyed the time in by royce and generally tried to delegate any tasks that came his way. oh god,

i mean that on top as well. up through 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, oh dear sheila be so kind and come to the window, shouted the you for a crowd than hitler stepped up to the side window of the royal portal and greeted his onlookers. hitler last visited by a boy 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 butner 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 bonfire from bond fleet, which had wagner sons. equally died in 1930, his wife finished fred took over as festival director. hitler continued to find

a warm, free place to stay. in calmer, he actually came here too. i almost want to say to enjoy family life. actually just to see the children he 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 iowa? hitler was a bit of a pyromaniac. 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, but they had to keep him company here. my hear the gazande you search after mom and benefit, the ardent supporter of national socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent

friend. ah, 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 walk idle axes tucked on that mo, after 1945 vinegar 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 after the war because you couldn't talk about him in public any. 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 lung. it to her that was after all he got the heart of nazi propaganda and calendar. it is proper. oh, for the opening of the annual party conference. the overture of hitler's beloved julian c. pathos and bombast. lindsay shoe din,

boost dish and put if you look at the infamous party congress film by then the leaf inch dawes triumph of the will. or what i'll bet spare did was 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. can all be combined quite well with wagner. operas and gum scoot 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. 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'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 it 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 graves. 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 i 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. a cigarette. mcdonough, dad lou, lou. so didn't get the same tension before that the toner and maybe even waiting for for 5 hours. which point everyone to says

a little soon, 5 hours of delayed gratification. and when released finally tons, it's in the form of death. it's this 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 enough of he always had suicidal bought up to video. and when he was at difficult points, when he was in danger of failing him up, he would say that he would end it, hold the and brutally shoot himself to that was always one of his light motifs. and he finally carried it out in the bunker in 1945 or greg, but he needed talk to hulu. and even then, wagner played an important part. accompanied by the strains of zeke pleads, funeral march from gotta them alone. the fearless,

miserable end was announced on the radio. ah, there truly is a dangerous closeness between the 2 men and association. you should be aware of my uncommon dot. you can only be of log marian 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. keeped is going to mel for i can imagine dealing with wagner like with cigarettes, with a warning on the pac yvonne or cut. ah ah, ah, with

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