Source: BBC News
A letter written by Hitler’s favourite composer Richard Wagner warning about “corrosive” Jewish influence on culture has been auctioned in Jerusalem.
The letter sold for $34,000 (£24,000).
In the April 1869 letter, the anti-Semitic composer tells French philosopher Edouard Schuré that the French know “very little” about Jews.
Wagner’s work contains anti-Semitic, racial purity and misogynist ideas. His music is not banned in Israel but is not played due to public opposition.
The letter was sold as lot 112 at the Kedem auction house in Jerusalem, rising from a starting price of $5,000.
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