Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth
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Author: Brigitte Hamann
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
Winifred Wagner's story is a remarkable one. The British-born orphan became Richard Wagner s daughter-in-law, one of Adolf Hitler's closest personal friends. Brigitte Hamann presents the first major, unbiased biography of the First Lady of Hitler's Bayreuth. Born Winifred Williams in 1897, she was adopted, aged nine, by distant English relatives and in 1915 the eighteen-year-old Winifred married into the Wagner family when they needed an heir to secure the Wagner heritage and the festival site at Bayreuth. In 1923, shortly before the Munich Putsch, Hitler made a pilgrimage to Wagner's grave in Bayreuth. And so began a close, lifelong friendship between Winnie and Wolf . She became a founder member of the Nazi party and from 1933 the town of Bayreuth at festival time was the centre of the German political world. Described as the last Nazi in Germany, she remained loyal to the memory of Wolf till her death in 1980. Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book presents a portrait of an extraordinary woman, as well as revealing glimpses of the private Hitler, offering the best insight yet into his relationship with Bayreuth and its central place in twentieth-century German history.
Author: Brigitte Hamann
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
Winifred Wagner's story is a remarkable one. The British-born orphan became Richard Wagner s daughter-in-law, one of Adolf Hitler's closest personal friends. Brigitte Hamann presents the first major, unbiased biography of the First Lady of Hitler's Bayreuth. Born Winifred Williams in 1897, she was adopted, aged nine, by distant English relatives and in 1915 the eighteen-year-old Winifred married into the Wagner family when they needed an heir to secure the Wagner heritage and the festival site at Bayreuth. In 1923, shortly before the Munich Putsch, Hitler made a pilgrimage to Wagner's grave in Bayreuth. And so began a close, lifelong friendship between Winnie and Wolf . She became a founder member of the Nazi party and from 1933 the town of Bayreuth at festival time was the centre of the German political world. Described as the last Nazi in Germany, she remained loyal to the memory of Wolf till her death in 1980. Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book presents a portrait of an extraordinary woman, as well as revealing glimpses of the private Hitler, offering the best insight yet into his relationship with Bayreuth and its central place in twentieth-century German history.
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Brigitte Hamann
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
Winifred Wagner's story is a remarkable one. The British-born orphan became Richard Wagner s daughter-in-law, one of Adolf Hitler's closest personal friends. Brigitte Hamann presents the first major, unbiased biography of the First Lady of Hitler's Bayreuth. Born Winifred Williams in 1897, she was adopted, aged nine, by distant English relatives and in 1915 the eighteen-year-old Winifred married into the Wagner family when they needed an heir to secure the Wagner heritage and the festival site at Bayreuth. In 1923, shortly before the Munich Putsch, Hitler made a pilgrimage to Wagner's grave in Bayreuth. And so began a close, lifelong friendship between Winnie and Wolf . She became a founder member of the Nazi party and from 1933 the town of Bayreuth at festival time was the centre of the German political world. Described as the last Nazi in Germany, she remained loyal to the memory of Wolf till her death in 1980. Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book presents a portrait of an extraordinary woman, as well as revealing glimpses of the private Hitler, offering the best insight yet into his relationship with Bayreuth and its central place in twentieth-century German history.
Author: Brigitte Hamann
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 400
Winifred Wagner's story is a remarkable one. The British-born orphan became Richard Wagner s daughter-in-law, one of Adolf Hitler's closest personal friends. Brigitte Hamann presents the first major, unbiased biography of the First Lady of Hitler's Bayreuth. Born Winifred Williams in 1897, she was adopted, aged nine, by distant English relatives and in 1915 the eighteen-year-old Winifred married into the Wagner family when they needed an heir to secure the Wagner heritage and the festival site at Bayreuth. In 1923, shortly before the Munich Putsch, Hitler made a pilgrimage to Wagner's grave in Bayreuth. And so began a close, lifelong friendship between Winnie and Wolf . She became a founder member of the Nazi party and from 1933 the town of Bayreuth at festival time was the centre of the German political world. Described as the last Nazi in Germany, she remained loyal to the memory of Wolf till her death in 1980. Drawing on previously untapped sources, this book presents a portrait of an extraordinary woman, as well as revealing glimpses of the private Hitler, offering the best insight yet into his relationship with Bayreuth and its central place in twentieth-century German history.
Winifred Wagner: A Life at the Heart of Hitler's Bayreuth
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