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Wagner's Hitler: The Prophet and His Disciple
Wagner's Hitler is an important and controversial contribution to the literature on Hitler's Germany.
384 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1999
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July 23, 2016
It is one of a kind. Kohler does an incredible job to explore the relationship between music and ideology through Hitler's fascination for Wagner's compositions. It was, in some sense, impossible for Hitler to become Hitler without his obsession for Wagner's plays and operas.
February 5, 2014
Total bunk. Selective, short, piecemeal quotations. Disingenuous end-notes (Köhler quotes his own work when the reader is expecting a contemporaneous report). Wild speculation given as fact. "Must have" "could have" "may have" "might have" on almost every page.
April 8, 2013
It's okay. The author makes some good point, but overall, he overstates his case. Falls under the structuralist viewpoint of National Socialist history.
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