Difference between revisions of "K. Freigedank"
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*[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ranhab/wagner.html Bio of Wagner, from Harvard University] | *[http://www.hup.harvard.edu/features/ranhab/wagner.html Bio of Wagner, from Harvard University] | ||
*[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html Jewish Virtual Library] | *[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Wagner.html Jewish Virtual Library] | ||
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Revision as of 01:15, April 3, 2008
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.
The word itself, freigedank, is German for free thought or free-thinker, which in its English annotation is used as a byword for atheism.