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Winnie And Wolf
Winnie and Wolf" is the story of the extraordinary relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years 1923-40 as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner house in Bayreuth. Winifred an English girl brought up in an orphanage in East Grinstead married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germanys most controversial genius is a passionate Germanophile a Wagnerian dreamer a Teutonic patriot. In the debacle of the post-Versailles world the Wagner family hope for the coming not of a warrior a fearless Siegfried but of a Parsifal a mystic idealist a redeemer-figure. In 1923 they meet their Parsifal - a wild-eyed Viennese opera-fanatic in a trilby hat a mac and a badly fitting suit.Hitler has already made a name for himself in some sections of
German society through rabble-rousing and street corner speeches. It is Winifred though who believes she can really see his poetry. Almost at once they drop formalities and call one another Du rather than Sie. She is Winnie and he is Wolf. Like Winnie Hitler was an outsider. Like her he was haunted by the impossibility of reconciling the pursuit of love and the pursuit of power; the ultimate inevitability if you pursued power of destruction. Both had known the humiliations of poverty. Both felt angry and excluded by society. Both found each other in an unusual kinship that expressed itself through a love of opera."
German society through rabble-rousing and street corner speeches. It is Winifred though who believes she can really see his poetry. Almost at once they drop formalities and call one another Du rather than Sie. She is Winnie and he is Wolf. Like Winnie Hitler was an outsider. Like her he was haunted by the impossibility of reconciling the pursuit of love and the pursuit of power; the ultimate inevitability if you pursued power of destruction. Both had known the humiliations of poverty. Both felt angry and excluded by society. Both found each other in an unusual kinship that expressed itself through a love of opera."
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