so all leftists are anti Jewish what does he think Nazis were Socialists Rohm hated Business thats why he needed to be killed .
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3994189,00.html Barenboim wants Wagner free of Nazi link
Israeli conductor says perception of German composer unjustly influenced by fact he was Hitler's favorite. Holocaust survivors group blasts argument as 'moral failure'
Associated Press
Published: 12.09.10, 07:47 / Israel Culture
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Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim says the perception of Richard Wagner is unjustly influenced by the fact he was Hitler's favorite composer, infuriating a Holocaust survivors group which blasted the argument as a "moral failure."
"We need one day to liberate Wagner of all this weight," Barenboim told reporters Friday. He is conducting Wagner's "Die Walkuere" for the gala premiere of La Scala's season in Milan this week.
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"I think a bit of the problem with Wagner isn't what we all know in Israel, anti-Semitism, etc... It is how the Nazis and Hitler saw Wagner as his own prophet. ... This perception of Wagner colors for many people the perception of Wagner."
Barenboim said Wagner, who died in 1883, was politically on the left and could not have foreseen the Nazi Holocaust that killed 6 million Jews during World War II.