How Do You Celebrate the Birthday of a Great Composer Who Inspired Hitler?
Germany grapples with the bicentennial of Richard Wagner's birth.
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Heather Horn is an associate editor at The Atlantic. She is a former features editor and staff writer for The Atlantic Wire, and was previously a research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Germany grapples with the bicentennial of Richard Wagner's birth.
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