“It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.”

14 November 1878
Cosima Wagner's Diaries (1978)

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German composer, conductor 1813–1883

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