Response_To_Wagner

Response To Wagner A while back, when first dealing with the subject of music in Nazi Germany, someone raised the point that Wagner would have made a great Nazi. I questioned this statement, since I always believed artists contain an aura of humanity about them, which places them above the petty differences and ideologies of the rest of the world. As an artist, I hoped that Wagner might realize his humanity, and object to the treatment of Jewish peoples during World War II (based on the juxtaposition of Wagner in World War II Nazi Germany). Thankfully, this reading corrected my flawed assumption. During this period in history, no Jewish state existed for people of Hebrew descent. Dishearteningly, Wagner did a good job of hammering this point home within the framework of this article. Examining the second paragraph proves this point: “The Jew speaks the language of the nation in whose midst he dwells from generation to generation, but he speaks it always as an alien.” According to Wagner, the Jew has wagner, music, nazi, jewish, world, point, much, mendelssohn, germany, article, writing, within, war, wagner’s, upon, though, speaks, reading, people, nation, jew, ii, humanity, history, hebrides, great, generation, first, family, even, based, anti-semite, always, work, won’t