Hitler's record collection

[Josquin des Prez]

I had always thought Hitler liked Wagner because he was German & wrote stuff about conquering etc. (unless I'm mistaken - I'm not a Wagner conoisseur)

Hitler liked Wagner because his music represented the finest expression of the Aryan spirit, as understood by Germans at the time, as opposed to the "degenerate" expressionism of Jewish art, which made a mockery of all the ideals cherished by Western civilization up to that point. He was partially right of course. Take Dadaism for instance, a movement founded by an handful of Jewish extremists who's specific purpose was to wage warfare against the artistic sensibility of gentile Europeans. Hitler obviously never read Spengler or he would have never entertained the notion of preserving an entire culture by putting it in an air tight jar, to be kept unaltered for a thousand years, or however long he thought the Reich was going to last.

[Superhorn]

  One reason why some Jews find it difficult to listen to Wagner is that there are and were Holocaust survivors who were forced to listen to Wagner's music constantly in the concentration camps, and that hearing his music again arouses unbearable memories for them. Is it any wonder?
  But WE should not hate Wagner's magnificent music because of the way that Hitler exploited it. You can't blame those poor Holocaust survivors for reacting that way.