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RE: Hitler’s obsession with composer Richard Wagner
Hitler's main interest in Wagner was the early opera Rienzi with it's political themes. The real grand Wagner operas was not that hot in the Nazi regime and Parsifal was even banned as far as I remember.
Still Wagner is in many ways, even though it is not possible historically to call him a Nazi, a fascinating and scaring prelude. The contradiction of being a conservative and a revolutionary at the same is somehow the essens of both Wagner and fascism.
From Syberbergs Parsifal-film that was also accused of having nazi sympathies... But a fantastic film none the less.
It is also said that Hitler loved Wagner because his work was tied to Germanic folklore.
Yes, it is often assumed that for example Der Ring des Nibelungen should be the main interest of the Nazis, but as far as I know there is not really historical evidence of this. Himmler was the one that cultivated the heathen - occult Nazism, but neither Hitler nor the other Nazi leaders approved much of that. But I am not entirely sure about Hitler's relationship with the folklore part...
Nietzsche on the other hand was the one that really understood the art of Wagner. Hitler was to petty bourgeois kitsch oriented to really understand the revolutionary grandness of Wagner's music.