1. The role of Wangerism in German Culture in the Third Reich
... character,"" and seemed at one point to propose something like physical self-annihilation as the Jews' only redemption from their "curse-'#. This was a result of Wagner's belief that ascribes all forms of resistance to his work to imagined Jewish conspiracies; whereas in reality his cause was actively promoted by Meyerbeer, supposedly the chief instigator of these intrigues, until Wagner publicly attacked ... the German race') theories, influenced by the racial theorist Count Arthur de Gobineau and the orientalist and cultural philosopher Paul de Lagarde. Wagner's essays on socio-politi...
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