Word: hitlerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They also considered Kennedy's dependability during his 13 years of reporting for the A.P.: in ten years abroad, he had covered the Spanish Civil War, Hitler's invasion of the Sudetenland, the Libyan campaign; had been shot at in Syria, Sicily and Italy. They knew about his tilts with censors, too: in the invasion of southern France, he had been suspended briefly, along with four other newsmen, for running off in a jeep to make a "juncture" with the northern armies at Nantes, ten days before the official juncture. For that, his friends named him "Task Force...
...Adolf Hitler loved music-especially Wagner. In Mein Kampf, he had written: "My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth master knew no bounds." The Third Reich, Hitler said, had its foundations in the German myths of Composer Richard Wagner, and the shrine at Wagner's Bayreuth was called "the Olympus of German art." In 1938 Hitler ordered that the military music of his favorite composer be used at all of Nürnberg's pagan rallies, and he sat for long hours at Berchtesgaden listening to recordings of Siegfried...
...Hitler did not believe (or quite possibly had never read) Nietzsche's The Case of Wagner: "One pays dearly for having been a follower of Wagner. . . . Wagner's stage requires but one thing: Germans! .. [and] Germans themselves have no future." Nor did Hitler look deeply into the final cataclysmic scene of his beloved Götterdämmerung, for which Wagner himself had written the program note: "The will that wanted to shape an entire world according to its wish can finally attain nothing more satisfactory than . . . annihilation...
Last week Hamburg's official Nazi radio station dutifully, tirelessly played excerpts from Götterdämmerung for an hour, then made its announcement: Adolf Hitler was dead...
Always a good German, Strauss has been an on-again-off-again friend of the Nazis. Last June, he publicly snapped his fingers at Hitler's threat to cancel his birthday celebration, said: "It was not I who started the war" (TIME, July 17). Even then, the Kultur-conscious Nazis, considering his prestige valuable to Germany, let him be. As the war approached his doorstep, the aged composer continued to cultivate his musical garden...