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Book Synopsis* A controversial new examination of the relationship between Wagner and Hitler* Traces Wagner's influence on Hitler from his youth to his dictatorship* Has generated a great deal of debate in Germany and is sure to do so in the English-speaking world. .
Trade Review"Fascinating and very well written ... clearly the best documented of the attempts to link Wagner and Hitler."
Harold James, Princeton University "Chilling and exhaustively researched ... [it offers a] persuasive case for its thesis that Hitler based his entire philosophy and the whole Nazi apparatus on ideas explicitly drawn from Wagner's writings and operas." The New York Times
'Time and again Wagner called for the annihilation of the Jewish race, an alien body in an Aryan German state. Hitler took him at his word.' Ronald Taylor, in his Introduction
Table of ContentsIntroduction by Ronald Taylor 1
1 Ein Heldenleben 6
2 The Last of the Tribunes 24
3 Dresden Burns 37
4 Studies in the Ring 51
5 Dragon-Slayer by Profession 67
6 The Future as Art 81
7 A Royal Failure 97
8 The Witch’s Kitchen 115
9 A Lethal Subject 133
10 Pioneers 144
11 An Official Blessing 162
12 The Saviour Betrayed 178
13 Wagnerian Hero: A Self-Portrait 191
14 Blood Brotherhood 209
15 Life under the Mastersingers 242
16 Barbarossa Returns; Ahasverus Perishes 269
Notes 296
Bibliography 356
Index 370
