1. The role of Wangerism in German Culture in the Third Reich
The poet Peter Viereck wrote an essay in 1939 entitled "Hitler and Richard Wagner- in which he argues that "this warped genius- [Wagner] was "perhaps the most important single fountainhead of Nazi ideology-'#. ... Stein gave lectures on Wagner as a thinker and philosopher and wrote the essay Die Darstellung der Natur in den Werken Richard Wagners (The depiction of nature in the work of Richard Wagner). Stein saw the Germans as idealists' and the cause of German idealist tradition as important as Wagnerism itself, he considered, and wrote about, the Jews to be incapable of spiritu...
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