By thousands every year at the legendary by white festival. And his fans known as back marians pay him homage worldwide. But hitlers love of wagner and his work was extreme. Why did wagner fascinate him so much . Here are 7 reasons. Hitler loved heroic tales. Log in as dramatic opera as reflected hitlers view of himself as an all powerful victor. O hitlers own dashed dreams of becoming an artist. Hitler, josie shakima. I screwed hitler, who always saw himself as an artist. I now felt a kind of aesthetic affinity with richard wagner. Wagner. Good hitler and wagner. What both anti semites, wagner, demonized jews blaming them for everything that only reinforced hitlers own anti semitism. Wagner by white festival energized hitler ever tom he considered borrowed festival the only vacation he had during the year. The year hitler apparently drew strength from wagners works. Ah, the wagner is, were a surrogate family for hitler killed us. He wasnt the fuor at all. Gail wagners approach became the soundtrack of dictatorship, nazi party rallies and air rates, and the news reels of german propaganda. They were accompanied by wagners office war as a theatrical production. Wagner encouraged hitlers megalomania huge orchestras and riveting harmonies, ah, has ever been breton background music for megalomania, for gross in vaughan. But 1st, who was shot wagner anyway . Born in 1813 in leipzig. Hes considered both a genius and any go maniac. His ambition was to recreate opera as a total work of art with he called because im to 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 approach that ran for up to 16 hours. Wagner had an imposing Festival Hall built 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 d, place of pilgrimage for wagnerian from around the world. For a month, each summer, only wagners works are performed. Wagner, wagner, wagner, nothing but wagner. So back to our question, why did hitler idolized cat wagner . Lets 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, this was meant to be. So im on the one hand, of course there is the music that overwhelming tonal language or the hot wagner, which can penetrate very deeply into the soul. Oh, but then theres also the subject matter which is rooted in germanic myth. Whats that in itself spoke to hitlers vision, but there was also the idea of redemption result of overcoming adverse realities dealing with reality and 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 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 mind comes, he related the sense of awakening at the age of 12. O. As as the 1st opera of my life lohengrin captivated me, immediately my youthful enthusiasm for the by hoist 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 wagners opera about a brave roman politician who wants to save his people. It encouraged hitlers tendency towards megalomania. This village did not off hitlers 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 germanys 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 forbes. Oh, but the n cs 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 ramseys fate. And because ramsey failed, i thought, well, he had no power structure, no party behind him, does he . He didnt have a powerful force behind entropy. And like hitler later had the brown shirts out of the pot i and 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 thats why it cant happen to him. Interesting argument. Hitler loved heroic figures like low and clean and pnc and wagners operas fuel hitlers quest for power. Hitlers damaged artistic dreams found refuge in 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 meet by selling his own watercolor paintings with ive been maybe if hed gotten into art School History would have turned out differently. Its useless to contemplate really, but sometimes you do wonder what would have happened if 311. 00 in 19 o 8. He tried his hand as a composer attempting to complete wagners 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 under. He didnt 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 shot wagners 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 opinion that the jews had gained too much power. God to bye. You didnt call 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 muffin was under former partners wife, cosima herself, a bitter anti semite, noted wagners 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 wagners works yet might have fish or he is clear indications, especially in the opera. My sizing hung in a singing competition. The character of beck mess are things especially poorly and also steals the other singer songs. Ah, yes 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 opt and he says, all is control. Can anyone sing like that . Thats just offer me here. I think thats what wagner is parodying here. Hot podium from mark. Oh oh. In 2017. The violet festival saw its 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. Im not dealing with jewish culture. Im 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 kosky production holds not accountable. Ah, i believe wagner has created his own personal hell. Now hes 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 thats the position that i think 5 in. Im 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, thats a provocation. Eulley gorgie of the band hall front was shocked when he came across wagners anti jewish pamphlet. Mackwood, strange that the tempest. I thought i must have misunderstood something. Mister. Is this really the same guy . Is this the composer . The wagner, the la, thats the thing, or a sick person with the same name, crow linden glacier. Well, it was the same person like a balloon. Wow. Buns this into this week. Wagner, moody, gorgeous response was to reshape musical motifs from wagner into a cynical klezmerson about the love of an israeli for a girl from by white awake. Then i think that you are pharmacists of mine. 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 thats fission. Listen, we have to live with. Its 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 or problematic. In israel, wagners music was boycotted for decades. But in 2001, conductor daniel baton 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 television 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 im, what are you doing there . I said its, its an opera called connolly. And he said, do you have security . Do you have a body guard . 0100 e, from wagners oper parsifal is a heathen who is damned to seduce men for all eternity . Here she becomes a goddess. Its 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 ends and why hes boy carted and everybody had an opinion. Israel, some people think they absolutely should plan some people think absolutely not. But quandary was a nice way to sort of start dialogue. Ah 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. We 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, who i and barton of the bio 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 yard more here one has the feeling of being at the heart of the matter itself. Suicide diverting lujan. Wagner. An adult. Hitler came to by void us 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 vog, neri and frenzy lasting several days, surrounded by the composers descendants. Wagners daughter in law vinnie fled, wagner remembered hitlers visits fondly. Ah. M. A talked that he considered the weekend by royce is his only Vacation Days in the whole year as a by what the notion. He enjoyed the timing by royce and generally tried to delegate any tasks that came his way. Oh i mean hancock as well up to 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 got his voice. Dear fellow, be so kind and come to the window, shouted the you for a crowd. Then 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 bud nurse 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 at of hitler to the wagner family. Hitler admired chamberlains racist and anti semitic view. Beginning in 1936, hitler moved into the composers 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 bon playdoh foreign bond fleet, which had fought sons equally died in 1930. His wife finished fred took over as festival director. Hitler continued to find a warm, free place to stay. Oh, when 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 sons 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 love i. Hitler was a bit of a pyromaniac. He liked to sit there until the Early Morning hours, who in 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 benefit the art and supporter of National Socialism was simply enchanted by her prominent friend. Ah ha, ha ha ha. He wasnt the fuor at all except him. I never experienced anything for beating about him. Thats the strange thing. You know, he had this absolute, austrian sensibility and walk idle axes tucked on that a mo. After 1945, Jennifer 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 distanced 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 because you couldnt 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. Ill bless it at all. The wagners a true surrogate family for hitler. Wagners music, the soundtrack of dictatorship, oh, madness, bombastic, music could be used perfectly for hitlers political goals. These are enormous. This enormous impact mazin, of the music of the lyrics. The story lines with which you can overwhelm the listeners. Mon did to her. That was after all, he got the heart of nazi propaganda and condor. It is propaganda ah, for the opening of the annual party conference, the overture of hitlers beloved gillian c, pathos and bombast. Lindsay shoe din boost dish and if you look at the infamous Party Congress film by then he leaf inch dawes triumph of the will. Or what ill 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 does is follow all this insincere exalted and melodramatic stuck on the which the nazis used for their propaganda in a clever way. So you can all be combined quite well with wagner. Operas and gums, quote, from wagner composed music with great pathos for hitler, the soundtrack of dictatorship, wagner encouraged hitlers megalomania, hitlers fantasies of redeeming. The german guys were really started up by wagners 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 werent aware of until then for the existence. I think its like any drug. And wagner is a drug key that all enjoyed it moderation. It can make you healthy losses in excess. It can make you sick, can doctors in the 19th century had already suspected this and they attributed a devastating effect to wagners music, hysteria, madness, and even death. Indeed tristan, a diesel, de, 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, 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 fathers music reinforce hitlers pathological side, a kind of accelerant for hitler sick brain. And how can music be life threatening . I think its 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 its taken away from the lovers who cannot reach each other figure that back down. So didnt get the same tension before that the toning maybe been waiting for for 5 hours. Which point everyone to says a little, soon, 5 hours of delayed gratification. And when released finally, tons, its in the form of death, is 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, most of he always had suicidal boy up there when he was at difficult points was when he was in danger of failing it. Well, he would say that he would end it coldly and brutally shoot himself to a. She said that was always one of his light motifs. This any finally carried it out in the bunker. In 1945 will grab any needy toddlers. And even then, wagner played an important part, accompanied by the strains of zeke feeds funeral march from gutter them along. The fuel is miserable and 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 youre also willing and able to look at the other side of the coin, which does exist to the top. Do c o cubed come to mail for i can imagine dealing with wagner like with cigarettes, with a warning on the pac devonne will cut with with the 77 percent. Governments should realize that we tally seen the never saw anything gone, be unwrapped. Michaela is agrees with me. You know, we only demanding yall to let us increase what were seeing. That they said no need to because we only demanding quite out to have us out. Im calling the north africa with 77 percent. We can no longer a pin number. Have a woman with gun margaret was 64 when she 1st right . A motorbike and she has and stuff and 18000 kilometers. 18 countries. The adventure of a lifetime. No limits. Margarets incredible journey as special read here. 60 minutes on d. W. A lead of contrasts of ambitions of equality. 75 years ago, nagondo peacefully led the country to Independence School full of ideals. What is remained of his vision with whats the status of human rights and social justice in whats called the Worlds Largest democracy . Ah, willis, india headed. This is the moment to unleash a nonviolent pass. And re imagine that these teachings, 4 elements to gandhis legacy store to august 6th on d, w. Mm. Its time for the 77. 00 for sense that show for africa as young majority. Im your host, eddie micah junior. Its a pleasure to welcome you as always we have a lot in store for you