Hitler Was Frustrated Opera Singer
Received Thursday, 10 a.m. LONDON, December 1. Adolf Hitler was a frustrated opera singer, the Britishborn Winifred Wagner, told the special Denazification Appeal Tribunal hearing her petitioii to have her previous conviction as an "offender" quashed, reports Reuter#s Bayreuth correspondent. • /
Fratt Wagner, a daugbter-in-law ' of the famous German composer, Rifchard Wagner, was director of the Bayreuth Wagner music festivals from 1930 onwards. She said that Hitler confided to her once that he had hoped to be an opera singer. Ete had sung in a boys' Choir at Lihz, Austria, when .he was young, said Frau Wagner, who admitted a close friendship . .with Hitler over 26 years. Frau Wagrier, whose name was frequently linked with Hitler's in
'pre-war German gossip, was .appealing against the sentence by a Bavarian Denazification Court in 1947, which ordered that 60 per cent of her property be confiscated, anTd sentenced her to 450 days' special labour. She said that she refused requests from Hitler and Goebbels to join the Nazi Party or National Socialist Theatr'e Advisory •Board. She insisted that her relationship v with Hitler was . social rather than political. o " * ■ ' ' ' .
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Chronicle (Levin), 2 December 1948, Page 5
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