Friedelind Wagner

[1] Along with other members of her family, from early in life Friedelind Wagner was involved with the Bayreuth Festspielhaus.

In 1936, Friedelind Wagner began work as an assistant to Heinz Tietjen but her outspoken criticism of close family friend Adolf Hitler — her mother, the English-born Winifred Williams, was a fanatical admirer of Hitler —[2] and the policies of the Third Reich led to her leaving Germany in 1939.

She lived for a short time in Switzerland, then emigrated first to England, where she was interned on the Isle of Man from 27 May 1940 till 15 February 1941.

With the help of Arturo Toscanini, Friedelind Wagner moved to the United States in 1941, where she became involved with radio broadcasts of anti-Nazi propaganda and became an American citizen.

[4] She also helped Professor Henry A. Murray, director of the Harvard Psychological Clinic plus psychoanalyst Walter C. Langer and other experts to create a 1943 report for the OSS designated as the Analysis of the Personality of Adolph Hitler.