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'''K. Freigedank''' is the pen name of composer [[Richard Wagner]] in a series of anti-Semitic writings, especially ''Das Judenthum in Der Musik'' (''Judaism in Music''), first published in 1869.  The article had been used as a basis for the National Socialism (Nazi) of [[Germany]] under [[Adolf Hitler]].
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'''K. Freigedank''' is the pen name of composer [[Richard Wagner]] in a series of anti-Semitic writings, especially ''Das Judenthum in Der Musik'' (''Judaism in Music'' or more accurately ''Jewishness in Music''), first published in 1869.  The article could have possibly influenced the National Socialism (Nazi) of [[Germany]] under [[Adolf Hitler]].
    
The word itself, ''freigedank'', is German for ''free thought'' or ''free-thinker'', which in its English annotation is used as a byword for [[atheism]].
 
The word itself, ''freigedank'', is German for ''free thought'' or ''free-thinker'', which in its English annotation is used as a byword for [[atheism]].
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