... it wasn't the vast majority of these who used his legacy and his work and in the process have done damage to him. It is rather the smaller group of zealous Wagnerites who accepted Wagner's claim to be a great social thinker as well as a great musician'#. Many ... embraced. Wagner's autodidactic learning meant that he had read an indiscriminately large amount, which resulted in sometimes contradicting intellectual schools of thought. This is reflected in his prose essays and music dramas.... they ride intellectual hobby horses of varying colors and breeds, and some of the most ambitious ...

• Word Count: 2346
• Approx Pages: 9
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... it wasn't the vast majority of these who used his legacy and his work and in the process have done damage to him. It is rather the smaller group of zealous Wagnerites who accepted Wagner's claim to be a great social thinker as well as a great musician'#. Many ... embraced. Wagner's autodidactic learning meant that he had read an indiscriminately large amount, which resulted in sometimes contradicting intellectual schools of thought. This is reflected in his prose essays and music dramas.... they ride intellectual hobby horses of varying colors and breeds, and some of the most ambitious ...

• Word Count: 2346
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... years, later called the Holocaust Years, would see the Jewish population of Europe being exterminated, as part of Hitler's "Final Solution" in dealing with what he called the Jewish problem, in his rhetorical speeches of hate against Jews. At 1933, there had been well over nine million Jews living in Europe ... loathing played a major role in his demagogical speeches to the German people. Hitler started what can easily be considered one of the greatest waves of hatred by one group of human beings towards another group. There is no doubt at all that Nazi Germany was a profoundly anti-Jewi...

• Word Count: 2487
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate