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Originally Posted by _dgn_
Well ! I'm trying to understand the problem (sorry for my poor english).
So Wagner's music was banished in Israel ? Why ? Apparently Wagner was nazi. Difficult to believe : Wagner died in 1883, Hitler was born in 1889. So improbable meetings between them !
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It's not a matter of Wagner having been a Nazi, which naturally is impossible since the Nazi party didn't exist while he was alive. However Wagner was already known for his anti-semitic views during his own lifetime, primarily because he went so far as to have them published several times over:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...d_antisemitism
That he became associated in the public consciousness with the Third Reich certainly doesn't make him any more appealing in this respect, but the damage had already been done by Wagner himself.
Saying that Wagner is considered anti-semitic simply because Hitler liked his music is, IMO, getting the initial cause and effect in the wrong order. If anything, it's more likely that the Third Reich latched on to Wagner because he was a prominent German composer whose published views on Jews and Judaism were already in line with Nazi ideology.