Why Stephen Fry loves Wagner

It wasn't the most obvious choice in a Jewish household, but the polymath is determined to take the composer back from Nazi affiliationsI grew up in a Jewish household. My mother is certainly not religiously Jewish, but a lot of her family, and therefore my family, were destroyed by Nazism, and Wagner became associated for her with Germanic horror. So when I started playing Wagner loudly, her eyes would close and she'd say, "I know you like it and that's fine, but really you know, what's wrong w...

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