Wagner Museum Takes Hard Look at Composer's Nazi Ties
A renovated Richard Wagner Museum opening in Bayreuth this weekend to coincide with the Bavarian city’s annual Wagner opera festival puts the composer’s anti-Semitism and his family’s later ties to Adolf Hitler center stage for the first time.
Doing the Nazis' Dirty Work
Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes has created a stir at the Cannes film festival with his wrenching ‘Son of Saul,’ which portrays the Jewish ‘sonderkommando’ laborers who were forced to do the Nazis’ dirty work in death camps.
Holocaust Victim, Artist Charlotte Salomon's Life Premieres as Opera
Photo: Salzburger Festspiele / Ruth Walz
Anselm Kiefer Says Jewish Collectors Boosted Career
(Reuters) — German artist Anselm Kiefer, many of whose huge canvases examine the legacy of the Third Reich, attributes much of his success to Jewish collectors in New York who latched onto his art early in his career when his fellow Germans were not all that interested.
