Why is it that every time i listen to Wagner i get the?

Question

urge to invade Poland?

Answer 1

I think he created the music so anyone German listening listening to it would get the urge to invade Poland!

Answer 2

Wagner was part of the late enlightenment Artistic movement in Germany which promoted a staunch nationalism and attempted to instilled a Teutonic historical consciousness, which would allow Germans to identify themselves as Germans as a people.

This movement responded to the Franchification of western German states and the lack of political cohesion amongst the German speaking states.

It was Wagner's hope that "Greater Germany" would unify in a single mythological image, Sigfried the hero of the Golden Ring, and start to see themselves as Germans first and Saxons or Bavarians second.

Hitler then utilized this movements imagery to support the Master-Race plans of the third Reich, as a further unified Empire coming back to a position of Supremacy.

Wagner may not have favored Hitler's use, but he got used to do it.

Answer 3

Perhaps it's genetic -
Germany invaded Poland in order to retrieve land that rightfully belonged to Germany and the German People. This land was removed from the German map by the biased and anti German post WW1 Versailles Treaty.

Answer 4

Are you sure it's not that village called "Vinh Drinh Lop" - it's kind of hairy in there - but I can understand the urge to go in there early in the morning when there's an offshore breeze and the music's on...

Answer 5

I've heard this question before and the destination was France. Wagner was one of those "boys will be boys". If I were you, I'd use headphones and steer clear of nightclubs with names like "Bear", "The Gilded Cowboy", or "Banana Paradise".