Wagner was a founding father of the Holocaust

Last week we posted an article about Wagner.
Many of our readers missed the point.

It's not "simply" that Hitler loved Wagner and his music was played at Nazi rallies and accompanied our relatives on their death marches. Wagner and his "Bayreuth Circle" were the "intellectual" and "spiritual" fathers of genocidal Nazism. Hitler and the whole regime were inspired by Wagnerian thought and music. Hitler said that that "there is only one legitimate predecessor to national socialism: Wagner".

There have been truckloads of detailed analysis of Wagner's music, writings and "philosophy". Much of it is just an apologia for his unadulterated hatred. Forget the analysis and bullshit - go straight to the source. Read this full text of Judaism in Music, by Richard Wagner, translated into English by William Ashton Ellis. It's 13 pages of archaic prose, but check out for yourself the unabating page after page of derision, hatred and scorn for all Jews!

Here is Wagner's conclusion to the article, verbatim...

To become Man at once with us, however, means firstly for the Jew as much as ceasing to be Jew. ... redemption can not be reached in ease and cold, indifferent complacence, but costs — as cost it must for us — sweat, anguish, want, and all the dregs of suffering and sorrow. Without once looking back, take ye your part in this regenerative work of deliverance through self-annulment; then are we one and un-dissevered! But bethink ye, that one only thing can redeem you from the burden of your curse: the redemption of Ahasuerus — Going under!

Ahasuerus is "the Wandering Jew", a legendary Jewish shoemaker, who taunted Jesus on the way to crucifixion, and was told by him "thou shalt go on forever till I return" or "I shall stand and rest, but thou shalt go on until the last day." The shoemaker was thus punished by being forced to wander the earth until the second coming of Jesus.

Others connect it to the Matthew 16:28: "Verily I say unto you, There be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the Son of man coming in his kingdom."

The anti-Semitic subtext of these ancient legends is that the destruction of Jerusalem and the Jewish diaspora was in retribution for Jewish responsibility for the Crucifixion.

The point here is that Wagner's conclusion in the article offers all Jews the "redemption" of the Wandering Jew, i.e. DEATH. (Here we are 150 years later and the anti-Semites are still offering us the same redemption in the form of national suicide - indefensible borders, "right of return" etc etc.)

Just remember that next time you listen to Wagner's wailing voilins and pompous scores (if you must). Personally I'll have no bar of it. I'd rather see him consigned to history's dustbin, where he belongs.