Wagner's Hitler

Joachim Köhler is a scholar of philosophy and German literature, and is the author of Zarathustra's Secret and Nietzsche and Wagner.

• Introduction by Ronald Taylor 11 Ein Heldenleben 62 The Last of the Tribunes 243 Dresden Burns 374 Studies in the Ring 515 Dragon-Slayer by Profession 676 The Future as Art 817 A Royal Failure 978 The Witch’s Kitchen 1159 A Lethal Subject 13310 Pioneers 14411 An Official Blessing 16212 The Saviour Betrayed 17813 Wagnerian Hero: A Self-Portrait 19114 Blood Brotherhood 20915 Life under the Mastersingers 24216 Barbarossa Returns; Ahasverus Perishes 269Notes 296Bibliography 356Index 370

"Fascinating and very well written ... clearly the best documented of the attempts to link Wagner and Hitler." Harold James, Princeton University"Chilling and exhaustively researched ... [it offers a] persuasive case for its thesis that Hitler based his entire philosophy and the whole Nazi apparatus on ideas explicitly drawn from Wagner's writings and operas." The New York Times 'Time and again Wagner called for the annihilation of the Jewish race, an alien body in an Aryan German state. Hitler took him at his word.' Ronald Taylor, in his Introduction