It's interesting to read Peter Viereck's _Metapolitics: the Roots of the
Nazi Mind_ (originally _Metapolitics: From the Romantics to Hitler_,
1941), to see the political and philosophical connection fleshed out.
But -- in the flesh? With the help of one of Jules Verne's useful
machines, perhaps; or, the with the skill of the photographer who placed
Wilhelm Furtwangler among a social gathering of Nazi bigwigs, but was
unable to manipulate the forgery sufficiently that WF actually looked at
the person he was supposedly talking to. One didn't need today's fancy
electronics to perpetrate such brazen frauds.
-- Vivian Ramalingam (prefers Schickele to Schickelgruber)
Michael Morse wrote:
>
> > I have never imagined that the [Wagner-Hitler] connection would be
> > as visually explicit as in this picture. Any
> > comments?
>
> 'fraid that's only too genuine. Hitler's fanatical enthusiasm for
> Wagner began in adolescence, and continued through to his last days on
> earth, which were filled with a grammophone version of
> Götterdämmerung. Of late, the conviction has arisen that, since Wagner
> was Hitler's favourite composer, then Hitler must be Wagner's
> favourite politician. After all, as elementary logic teaches (some of)
> us, if fire causes smoke, then smoke must cause fire, too.
>
> MWM
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