Heinrich Ernst Wachler Richard Frank Krummel: ''Nietzsche und der deutsche Geist.'' Bd. 1, unter Mitw. v. Evelyn S. Krummel, 2., verb. u. erg. Aufl., Berlin/New York 1998, p. 164. (* 18 February 1871 in Breslau; † September 1945 in Theresienstadt) was a völkisch-neopagan and

anti-semitic Antisemitism or Jew-hatred is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. A person who harbours it is called an antisemite. Whether antisemitism is considered a form of racism depends on the school of thought. Antisemi ...

writer, dramatist and publicist. Wachler's mother had been of Jewish origin but had converted to Protestantism in her youth. There is some confusion about the death of Ernst Wachler. Neopagan web pages and print-on-demand books make it appear as if he died as the victim of the Nazis in a concentration camp. Neo-völkisch writers allege that he was sent to KZ

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where he perished. The German historian Uwe Puschner (

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) mentions that there are various speculations about Wachler's death, but that, according to two of Wachler's close relatives, Wachler died in the summer of 1945, after the war as an imprisoned German civilian, in the Theresienstadt concentration camp from

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.Puschner 1996: 793

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Literature

Uwe Puschner, 1996: ''Ernst Wachler''. and ''Deutsche Reformbühne und völkische Kultstätte. Ernst Wachler und das Harzer Bergtheater''. In: ''Handbuch zur "Völkischen Bewegung" 1871 - 1918''. Ed. by Uwe Puschner, Walter Schmitz and Justus H. Ulbricht. Munich and others

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