Fest's film which was intended to explain why ordinary people in Germany loved Hitler created some controversy with some critics such as the American historian Deborah Lipstadt writing that by featuring extensive clips of Hitler from propaganda films while totally ignoring the Holocaust, Fest had engaged in a glorification of the Führer.

Hitler afterward declared that Raubal was the only woman he had ever loved.

Göring-who loved amassing medals-felt that the Grand Cross he received from Hitler was not really grand enough, so he had copies made-one with platinum edges-which he wore.

For example: " Hitler loved animals, so animal protection is a fascist activity the things Hitler did were wrong, or because it could lead to results ideologically or morally aligned with Hitler.

Inside Germany, Hitler was usually depicted as a god-like figure, loved and respected by the German people, as, for example, in Triumph of the Will, which Hitler co-produced.

but with the outbreak of World War II, Nordic romanticism in Britain became too much associated with the enemy's ideology to remain palatable, to the point that J. R. R. Tolkien, an ardent Septentrionalist, in 1941 found himself moved to state that he had a " burning private grudge ... against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler " for " ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light.

The music of Paul Hindemith, for example, was banned simply because Hitler did not like it.

Many of the painters, sculptors, music composers, architects, playwrights, and filmmakers who belonged to it, and still others associated with its members, were the same ones whose art would later be denounced as " degenerate art " by Adolf Hitler.

For reasons of expediency, however, he was initially drawn into cooperating with the early Nazi regime in the hope that Hitler — an ardent Wagnerian and music lover who had admired Strauss's work since viewing Salome in 1907 — would promote German art and culture.

Hill was interested in music from an early age and formed the punk band " Sex Hitler and the Hormones " with some friends while at school.

Synthpop's early steps, and Gary Numan in particular, were also disparaged in the British music press of the late 1970s and early 1980s for their German influences and characterised by journalist Mick Farren as the " Adolf Hitler Memorial Space Patrol ".

Prior to Hitler coming to power, black entertainers were popular in Germany, but the Nazis banned Jazz as ‘ corrupt negro music ’.

Adolf Hitler presented himself as an admirer of Wagner's music, and is said to have claimed that " there is only one legitimate predecessor to National Socialism: Wagner ".

Wagner's posthumous daughter-in-law, Winifred Wagner, was an admirer of Adolf Hitler and ran the Bayreuth Festival of Wagner's music from the death of her husband, Siegfried, in 1930 until the end of World War II, when she was ousted.

In 1923, Winifred met Adolf Hitler, who greatly admired Wagner's music.

Under the direction of Sefton Delmer, a British journalist who spoke perfect Berliner German, Soldatensender Calais and its associated shortwave station, Kurzwellensender Atlantik, broadcast music, up-to-date sports scores, speeches of Adolf Hitler for " cover " and subtle propaganda.

Hitler enjoyed Lehár's music, and hostility diminished across Germany after Goebbels's intervention on Lehár's part.

After Adolf Hitler seized power in 1933, Szpilman returned to Warsaw, where he quickly became a celebrated pianist and composer of both classical and popular music.

In Paris, they composed music for films directed by persons who had fled Hitler.

Soviet music critic Lev Lebedinsky, a friend of the composer's for many years, confirmed after the dawn of glasnost (" openness ") under Mikhail Gorbachev that Shostakovich had conceived the Seventh Symphony before Hitler invaded Russia:

Because of Hitler ’ s love of the music of Wagner, all the leading Party functionaries and their wives were expected to attend the Bayreuth Festival.

Hitler said, “ Anyone who does not appreciate the music of Wagner cannot understand National Socialism ”.

These included: streaking naked through the streets of Jerusalem wearing only the scarf and beanie of his favourite football club, St Kilda ; being baptised in Africa ; placing a Voodoo curse on his ex-girlfriend ; sneaking into Disneyland via a work area and attaching information plaques he made about founder Walt Disney to a display ( highlighting little known Disney " facts " such as Walt Disney's alleged early support for Adolf Hitler ); and getting a Catholic priest to review death metal music.

The fallacious nature of reductio ad Hitlerum is easily illustrated by identifying X as something that Adolf Hitler or his supporters did promote but which is not considered unethical, such as painting, enjoying classical music, or owning dogs.

For instance, Hitler identified closely with the music of Richard Wagner, who harbored antisemitic views as the author of Das Judenthum in der Musik.

Numerous works in popular music and literature feature Adolf Hitler prominently.

Later in the Nazi era, as part of the regime's propaganda intentions of ' Nazifying ' German culture, specific attempts were made to appropriate Wagner's music as ' Nazi ' and pseudo-academic articles appeared such as Paul Bulow's Adolf Hitler and the Bayreuth Ideological Circle ( Zeitschrift fur Musik, July 1933 ).

* The last sentence of the song is played as the background music in the cartoon Daffy – The Commando, while Daffy Duck was being shot by Von Vulture as a " human cannonball ", flying to Berlin and hitting Adolf Hitler in the head with a mallet.

They sought the British and American way of life, defining themselves in swing music and opposing the National-Socialist ideology, especially the Hitlerjugend (" Hitler Youth ").

As a teenager Kempowski, who was unathletic and had acquired a taste for American jazz and swing music through his older brother, chafed under compulsory service in the Hitler Youth, and was transferred into a penalty unit ( Strafeinheit ) of the organization.

Richard Overy also rejected the idea that Hitler and the Nazi regime ever intended a blitzkrieg war.

* Hitler ( 1962 film ), a film starring Richard Basehart

In this, he had the support of Hitler, a passionate devotee of Richard Wagner.

The British historian Richard Overy wrote that what Hitler thought he was starting in September 1939 was only a local war between Germany and Poland, and his decision to do so was largely because he vastly underestimated the risks of a general war.

The NKVD received the same report from Richard Sorge, its spy in Tokyo, but with a most significant extra paragraph that Hitler might seek peace with the Soviet Union.

Possessing a religious yearning for direct insight into the hidden mysteries of life and the universe, and strongly influenced by the operas of Richard Wagner ( who was also Hitler's favourite composer ), King decided Hitler was akin to mythical Wagnerian heroes within whom good and evil were struggling.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

In March 1933, when Richard Strauss was 68, Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power.

" However, he praised Dreyfuss and cited his Richard III scenes as " the funniest in a movie since Mel Brooks staged Springtime for Hitler.

Mitford's grandfather, Algernon Freeman-Mitford, had been a friend of Richard Wagner, one of Hitler's idols, and had translated the works of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, another inspiration for Hitler.

Mason's theory of a " Flight into war " being imposed on Hitler generated much controversy, and in the 1980s he conducted a series of debates with economic historian Richard Overy over this matter.

Hitler admired Richard Wagner's Lohengrin and Parsifal.

He was more successful with his featured role as Richard Deane in Dr. Fischer of Geneva ( 1985 ); this was followed by Howling III ( 1987 ), a cameo as Rupert Murdoch in the miniseries Selling Hitler ( 1991 ) with Alexei Sayle, a three-role cameo in Philippe Mora's horror satire Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills ( 1994 ), the role of Count Metternich in Immortal Beloved ( 1994 ), as well as roles in The Leading Man ( 1996 ), the Spice Girls ' film Spice World, the Australian feature Welcome to Woop Woop ( 1997 ), and Nicholas Nickleby ( 2002 ), in which he donned female garb to play Nathan Lane's wife.

Persons who have been the subject of psychobiographical research include Freud, Adolf Hitler, Sylvia Plath, Carl Jung, Vincent van Gogh, Abraham Lincoln, Elvis Presley, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche and Richard Nixon.

Järegård was since 1962 an actor in Sweden's prominent Royal Dramatic Theatre, where he came to perform a number of much celebrated parts: his eccentric Hitler in Schweik in the Second World War by Bertolt Brecht ( 1963 ), Estragon in the legendary 1966 Dramaten-staging of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Thersites in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 1967, Orgon in Molière's Tartuffe 1971, Hjalmar Ekdahl in Ingmar Bergman's 1972 production of Ibsen's The Wild Duck, Nero in Jean Racine's Britannicus ( 1974 ), a spot-on portrayal of August Strindberg in play Tribadernas natt ( The Night of the Tribades ) by Per Olov Enquist, the title role in Richard III by Shakespeare ( 1980 ) and the extremely creepy-and slightly perverted-boss Sven in VD (" CEO ") by Stig Larsson in 1985, among others.

Richard Steigmann-Gall, in The Holy Reich: Nazi Conceptions of Christianity, is another historian contending Hitler speaks an overall fake.

The Memorandum is often used by intentionalist historians such as Gerhard Weinberg, Andreas Hillgruber and Richard Overy to prove that Hitler planned to start a general European war, which became the Second World War, as part of a long-range master plan.

* Richard J. Evans, Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust, and the David Irving Trial, Basic Books, 2002 ( ISBN 0-465-02153-0 ).

* Brian Perkins ' commentary on Hitler and Elizabeth's wedding is a parody of Richard Dimbleby's hushed radio commentaries of royal events.

Jendresen is attached to multiple projects in various stages of development, including National Geographic Films ' Aloft ( starring Robert Redford ), The Hot Zone ( based on Richard Preston's novel ) Fire ( based on the Sebastian Junger book of the same name ), The 300 Spartans, Explaining Hitler, Cousteau, The Immortals, Journey to the Center of the Earth, a prequel to Star Trek, a 4-hour miniseries, " Majestic-12 ", a television series based on the history of The Pony Express with Robert Duvall, a television series based on the Francis Ford Coppola film, " The Conversation ", with Christopher McQuarrie, a television series " Mars " with NBC, a television series " Neurasthenia " with Melanie Griffith, an 8-hour miniseries adaptation of " Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West " with Salma Hayek and ABC, and a feature presentation " Killing Lincoln " which he is co-producing with Ridley Scott for the National Geographic Channel.

Mason's theory of a " Flight into war " being imposed on Hitler generated much controversy, and in the 1980s he conducted a series of debates with economic historian Richard Overy over this matter.

Besides that, Goldhagen, while talking all the time about German antisemitism, omits the specific impact of the völkisch antisemitism as proclaimed by Houston Stuart Chamberlain and the Richard Wagner movement which directly influenced Hitler as well as the Nazi party.