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For Germany, the Wagners are what the Atreidai are in Greek mythology. One of them, Atreus, committed a grave sin, casting a curse over all subsequent generations, beginning with Agamemnon and Menelaus, followed by Iphigenia, Orestes and Electra. The family is marked by enmity, as is the Wagner family.
On a certain influential composer. 
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As Der Spiegel bluntly puts it, when Jean-Paul Sartre met up with the head of a German terrorist group, he tried to use his powers “to persuade them to stop murdering people.”

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