Word: friedelind
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Composer Richard Wagner's less important works last week stirred politico-patriotic debate in Britain. The work in question was his saucy Granddaughter Friedelind, 22, who has had as interesting a history as any of his operas...
...years before the No. 1 Nazi became Chancellor, Music Lover Adolf Hitler first met the family of his favorite composer. Widow Cosima would have none of him, but Hitler struck up a friendship with English-born Daughter-in-Law Winifred Wagner. Aged five at this time was Granddaughter Friedelind. She was dandled on Herr Hitler's knee while rumor that he was going to marry her mother rose but finally ebbed. When about the age of a U. S. debutante, Friedelind, by her own account, used to lunch now & then with the Führer and chirp all sorts...
Over a year before the war Friedelind had enough of Nazi Germany, moved to Switzerland. At break of war, she appealed to music-loving Arthur Beverley Baxter, M.P., a Canadian-born British Tory, to get her admitted to England. She reached London just before France was smashed...
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