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| − | *[http:// | + | *[http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagjuda.htm Full text of ''Das Judenthum in Der Musik''] |
*[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/Wagner-as-AntiSemite-7230 ''Commentary Magazine''; must purchase full text of article] | *[http://www.commentarymagazine.com/viewarticle.cfm/Wagner-as-AntiSemite-7230 ''Commentary Magazine''; must purchase full text of article] | ||
*[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] | ||
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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.