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Posted: 12 Apr 2022

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Installation of the bust of Anton Bruckner, 1937. Hitler is standing forward, bottom left

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. . . One of the later musician guests is perhaps worth pondering: Anton Bruckner. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner His was the only bust to enter Walhalla during the Nazi period, and he is here not just a great composer but because he was born in Linz in Austria -- near to where Hitler spent his childhood. The incorporation of Buckner into Walhalla, at a ceremony attended by Fuhrer himself, was one way in which the cultural aspirations of Ludwig were taken over by the Third Reich. But interestingly -- surprisingly -- it was the only one. It might have been expected that Hitler would exploit to the full Ludwig’s idea of a temple to great Germans who had changed the world but in fact he left it relatively untouched. ~ Page 168

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