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Srdce wagnerovského kultu bilo pro Hitlera
Review: The Heart of Wagner's Cult Was Beating for Hitler

Author(s): Blahoslav Hruška
Subject(s): History
Published by: AV ČR - Akademie věd České republiky - Ústav pro soudobé dějiny

Summary/Abstract: Brigitte Hamann, Winifred Wagner oder Hitlers Bayreuth. Miinchen: Piper Verlag 2002, 687 pages. The reviewer acknowledges the latest monograph by a well-known Austrian histo¬rian, in which she continues in her tradition of biographies interpreting a wide scope of cultural history of a certain period. In the reviewed book, the author analyzes the political developments in Bayreuth during the Nazi period when the town became a center of Wagner's cult.

  • Issue Year: X/2003
  • Issue No: 03
  • Page Range: 342-346
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Czech
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