1. The role of Wangerism in German Culture in the Third Reich
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'#. ... These Wagnerites formed so-called academic Wagner societies' which committed themselves to furthering the Master's program of spiritual and social reform'#. ... He saw the Nazi's as vulgarity, mindlessness, and crude social Darwinism' and was saddened at the fateful intimacy between Bayreuth and the Nazi regime'#. ... Like Wagner before him, Chamberlain was inspired by Schopenhauer, Lagarde and Gobineau ...
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