This article was originally published on Moment Magazine. Music, at its core, is freedom. It cannot be caged by ideology or controlled by propaganda. The Nazis understood that, which is why they tried ...

Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in ...

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Here's what you'll learn when you read this story: During the period leading up to World War II, English opera singer Margery Booth had become famous in Germany and won the admiration of Hitler and ...

Like the sybaritic Ludwig who ruled Bavaria 50 years ago, Adolf Hitler has a fanatic admiration for the operas of Richard Wagner. King Ludwig liked to think of himself as Lohengrin or Parsifal, fixed ...