19th century Quote by Zubin Mehta

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic…

— Hans Frank

[Wilhelm] Bruckner was one of [Adolf] Hitler's adjutants, very close to him and he'd been in the party probably since day one. Personally neither…

— Gretl Braun

Wagner had a terrific understanding of politics. In 1829, he was a Marxist revolutionary who wanted to bring down the establishment. He hated religion…

— Michael Portillo

There are probably many people in Israel who believe that Wagner, who died in 1883, lived in Berlin in 1942 and was friends with Hitler.

— Daniel Barenboim

“Even in the early nineteenth century, people like Goethe had little good to say about grumbling, coarsely behaved nationalist romantics of the Arndt or…

— Götz Aly

An exciting and yet highly lucid account of the formation and significance of Karl Kraus's modernist journalism, an activity that Walter Benjamin and Gershom…

— Istvan Deak

“They had watched him make a masterwork of scapegoating Jews for Germany’s fall from power and persuade his followers that enlightenment, humanity, and tolerance…

— Jessica Shattuck

“He requested an opportunity to address the Officer Corps in Berlin, and General von Fritsch, who was in command at the time, agreed but…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“Some books about the Holocaust are more difficult to read than others. Some books about the Holocaust are nearly impossible to read. Not because…

— Carol Rittner

German Nazism could not have succeeded in establishing itself except as a result of the theoretical contributions of Fichte, Goethe and Nietzsche, coupled with…

— Abul A'la Maududi

“All Nazi champions insist again and again that Marxism and Bolshevism are the quintessence of the Jewish mind, and that it is the great…

— Ludwig von Mises

Wagner is the Puccini of music.

— J. B. Morton