For some, Richard Wagner is infamous as the favorite composer of Hitler, who seems to have admired Wagner as an early exponent of his own racist ideology and worldview. Impressed by this assumption ...

The diaries of Unity Valkyrie Mitford, the English friend of Hitler who may have been his ... told me he never does such things"; or "he gave me a Wagner record"; or "I saw him a bit sickly ...

Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of Hitler’s beloved composer, and now head of the annual Bayreuth Wagner Festival together with her older sister, Eva, told the Welt Online newspaper on ...

It is notable that at twelve years of age Hitler was 'enthralled' by the music of Richard Wagner, and it is fair to assume that it was the stream of heroic national German feeling, so strong in ...

But with the collective memory of Hitler’s rise fading, a new generation of Nazis like Wagner is willing to say ... The youngster had come to the march with a friend with equally horrifying ...

Like the sybaritic Ludwig who ruled Bavaria 50 years ago, Adolf Hitler has a fanatic admiration for the operas of Richard Wagner. King Ludwig liked to think of himself as Lohengrin or Parsifal ...