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Originally Posted by demonrail666
I agree. Wagner grew up in a culture of anti-semitism that strikes me as being very different to the one envisaged by the nazis. They used him, but I don't think he'd have been particularly interested in them.
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I'd disagree on two counts: there were plenty of people at the same time as Wagner who weren't as odiously anti-semitic, and Wagner is a massive part of 1st reich ideology, so isn't some incidental character in Nazi ideology.