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[email protected]. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. © David B. Dennis 1997 Beethoven in National Socialist Political Culture by David B. Dennis Paper for the “Musicology Colloquium Series,” Music and History Departments University of Wisconsin, Madison, 14 February 1997 We will constantly achieve success if we stride forward on the highpoints of [our] spiritual heritage...: if we stride forward from Beethoven to Hitler. Eugen Hadamovsky, (1934)[1] Sometime in 1934, shortly before emigrating from Germany, the photo journalist Alfred Eisenstaedt did a story on the Beethovenhaus in Bonn. Having climbed the narrow steps of the apartment, he prepared to take a shot of the cramped attic room where the great composer had been born.