Posted by js on May 18, 2003 at 21:18:19:
with their fictionalized version of the life of Hitler - continuously claiming that he worshipped the music of Richard Wagner which he (supposedly) felt best represented his sentiments and beliefs.
Actually, aside from a bunch of old marches with Nazi words added, the most-played orchestral work associated with the Nazi movement was reported to be Liszt's "Les Preludes".
Hitler supposedly listened to Wagner, but also Beethoven, R. Strauss, Bruckner, and many others as well, according to some sources. Ban Beethoven?? Why has Wagner always been the "musical whipping boy" of Nazism? Wagner is reported to have been quite a jackass, but I don't think this should associate him with Nazism, as Adolf Hitler was born several years after Richard Wagner died.
Joe "Shouldn't the American folklore tales of Paul Bunyan be repudiated, since they seem to reflect superiority of the white male? (Let's give Wagner a break and once and for all refrain from associating him - through his music - with Nazism.)" S.