Philip Hensher

Hitler’s admiration has severely damaged Wagner’s reputation

Wagner has been long, and unfairly, associated with the Third Reich. There is nothing anti-Semitic in the operas, and in fact most Nazis detested them, says Alex Ross

Richard Wagner. Credit: Getty Images
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