Bayreuth

EVERY summer thousands of people flock to Bayreuth for the Wagner Festival, and then it goes quiet again.
A beautiful town in north Bavaria, Hitler visited regularly because he was a friend of Wagner’s daughter-in-law, an Englishwoman and an ardent Nazi sympathiser.
Jewish members of the opera companies were able to perform for the Fuhrer because of this relationship, and he even tried to get a Fascist-hating Italian conductor to appear at the festival.
You can visit Wagner’s house and see his piano and one used by his father-in-law, Franz Liszt.
Hitler wanted it to become a model Nazi town but these days it’s just a model town. It’s even got a Youth Parliament, made up of teenagers.
Friedrich Nietzsche thought Wagner was great, too, at first, but the festivals persuaded him that cultural decay and decadence were afoot. Just thought I’d tell you that.