Genesis of the Hitler Legend


Each year, 300,000 tourists visit Adolf Hitler’s mountain top retreat high in the Bavarian Alps. The führer’s retreat, Kehlsteinhaus, dubbed Eagle’s Nest, is situated 6,000 feet atop the Kehlstein Mountain. One of civil engineering’s supreme accomplishments, the construction of the road and mountain-top residence was commissioned by Martin Bormann. This spectacular, and possibly one of the world’s most amazing achievements, was presented to the Reich Leader on April 20, 1939, his 50th birthday. It was here that Hitler relaxed between visits made by world statesmen.

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Wagner's Home in Riga

Wagner’s Home in Riga

Riga, the capital of Latvia, and nearby beautiful Sigulda, has a strong claim to being the genesis of the Third Reich legend. It was in Riga in 1838 that Richard Wagner was inspired to compose the first two acts of his third opera, Rienzi. In 1905, as a 16-year old, the non-political Adolf Hitler, with his friend August Kubizek, attended a performance of Wagner’s Rienzi. Afterwards, the youthful Adolf and his student friend made their way home beneath star emblazoned skies. As the boys wended their way through the moonlit countryside the two took it into their heads to climb the mountain to Freienberg Castle.

Rienzi Collage-4It was then, according to August, that Adolf ‘was possessed by that which burst out of him with elemental power’. This mystic visitation convinced Adolf Hitler that he was the reincarnation of the tribune, Rienzi. The people’s tribune had brought to its knees Rome’s corrupt government. The liberation of Rienzi’s people had sadly been short-lived. Putting their differences aside, political rivals conspired to turn the people against Rienzi. The almost god-like redeemer of Rome was to later perish in the flames of the city he had earlier secured.

This Wagnerian opera epic was initially set-out at Wagner’s rented home on the corner of Brivibas Iela and Dzirnavu Iela in Riga. Interestingly, during World War Two, Brivibas Iela (Freedom Street) was named Adolf Hitler Iela. Just 50 kilometres away is situated Turaida Castle (Pils). This much-visited picturesque Wagnerian fortress is the only Roman style medieval citadel in the Livonian region. There is circumstantial evidence that suggests Sigulda’s Turaida Castle inspired Wagner’s opera, Rienzi. Doubtless, the great composer would have visited the stronghold. We know Adolf Hitler was so enthused by the Rienzi legend that he attracted to himself a spiritual visitation. Equally indisputable, the fiery arc of the Reich and the Hitler ecstasy and agony was a replication of the Rienzi myth.

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