1. Nazis And The Power Of Music
... Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Amadeus Mozart, to name a few. Richard Wagner, one of Hitler's favorite composers, stated that art was the only way to restore wholeness to the human condition (Sheehan 838). Wagner believed that the Germans had a special role to play in contemporary ... culture with regard to music and art. Germans artistic talents were able to touch the deepest roots of spiritual and social vitality. The music was what made them the people they ... they did Jews. Many Jews had very little sense of religious or cultural identity, so they were stu...
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