Dennis Fodor wrote, responding to me: >Brigitte Hamann's book _Hitler's Wien_, a standard work, offers testimony >by two of Hitler's friends saying that they attended Mahler performances >at the Vienna Hofoper in his company. Both instances involved Mahler >_conducting _ Wagner, and not Mahler being performed. > >The one dating, by Friend Rudolf Haeusler, is 1913. The 1906 dating >cited by Mitch is more obliquely treated by Hamann. According to her, >there 's a postcard sent by Hitler that seems to claim that he attended a >Hofoper performance of Tristan on May 6 (not May 8). She also writes that >Hitler's friend August Kubizek in his memoirs claimed that he attended two >performances at the Hofoper with Hitler, one of these having been Tristan. >But; writes Hammann, neither Kubizek nor the Hofoper records give the name >of the conductor of this Tristan performance. None the less, Kubizek wrote >that Hitler had "the greatest regard" for Mahler--as a propagator of the >Wagner tradition. De La Grange says that on May 8 (sic), 1906, Mahler conducted Tristan. The next day, Hitler attended a performance of The Flying Dutchman, conducted by Franz Schalk. De La Grange adds that "probably" on May 22, Hitler attended Lohengrin, again conducted by Schalk. Mitch Friedfeld