WEST GERMANY: Good Old Adolf

"If Hitler walked through the door today, I would be just as glad and happy to see and have him here as ever." So says sprightly, white-haired Winifred Wagner, English-born daughter-in-law of Operatic Giant Richard Wagner and close friend of Adolf Hitler for 22 years. Frau Wagner, 78, broke a 30-year public silence to talk about herself and Hitler in a five-hour film, Winifred Wagner and the History of Haus Wahnfried, 1914-1975, which premiered in Paris recently. Her basic message: anybody who thinks that Hitler was cruel, malevolent and even megalomaniacal is mistaken about his "good and human" nature....

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