Removing Confederate Generals portraits?

[Liz Rosenthal]

(12-22-2013 11:53 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(12-22-2013 10:40 PM)Liz Rosenthal Wrote:  Wagner wasn't notably more antisemitic than others during his time.

I think he was:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_controversies

(12-22-2013 10:40 PM)Liz Rosenthal Wrote:  I don't know where we're going with this discussion.

You are right, I didn't want to stir up and lead the discussion anywhere further but just give an(other) example of oddities regarding "political correctness". IMO, Hindenburg wasn't worse than Wagner.

Interesting link, Eva. And the funny thing is that during the 19th century and into the 20th, Germany was not an unusually bad place for Jews. In those days, the atrocities (pogroms, and the like) happened in Russia, Ukraine, and Polish portions of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Germany and Austria both had a thriving Jewish intelligentsia, which I suppose is what Wagner didn't like. And, as you probably know, German Jews proudly fought for the Fatherland in World War One.