A new book, Richard and Adolf: Did Richard Wagner Incite Adolf Hitler to Commit the Holocaust? by Christopher Nicholson tries to pin Hitler's love of Wagner's music to his crazy delusions of racial supremacy.

Did Richard Wagner incite Adolf Hitler to commit the Holocaust? Is there such a thing as Nazi Music, Third Reich Music or proto-nazi or otherwise anti-Semitic music and art? Can music be evil?

Wagner (1813-1883) may have had racial supremacy delusions and Hitler may have been a fan of Wagner..but I do not see how Hitler can be said to have been influenced by Wagner in his megalomaniacal and genocidal ventures. Or rather, a person is subject to the environment and society he grows up in, can be influenced by history and people - present and past - but trying to share the blame of Hitler's misdeeds around does not make sense.