It is my understanding from reading Daniel Goldhagen's "Hitler's Willing Executioner" that anti-Semitism was so endemic that for Herr Wagner NOT to be so would have been the anomaly. I know my parents when they were growing up in the 1930's harboured no more or less anti-Semitism than the average Catholic in Bavaria. My grandfather who was friendly with Richard Strauss, once told of a discussion they had regarding the fate of Jewish musicians in the various choirs that my grandfather led. They both agreed with the need for the Jews to get out of Germany, but I always felt it was for their personal well being, not a "juden aus" situation. Rachel Ehrenberg Los Angeles