Tony Duggan writes: >Even Adolf Hitler himself admired Mahler as a conductor of Wagner. The >young Hitler attended performances at the Vienna opera in 1906 where Mahler >was in the pit and was very complimentary. In a letter Hitler wrote of >seeing Tristan und Isolde "recreated under the magnetic baton of the Jew >Mahler." In Brigitte Hamann's _Hitlers Wien_, a standard work on Hitler's Vienna years, the author plays back a section of memoirs written at the direction of the Nazi party by one of Hitler's friends. Hitler is shown as having been a Mahler partisan even at a time when Mahler had come under heavy fire from anti-Semitic jingoists. But he liked Mahler for the way he did Wagner, not for his own works. The Nazi-beholden book of course made sure to add that the Fuehrer had been pro-Mahler despite his fundamental distaste for "Israelites... with bent noses" Denis Fodor