July 30, 1947 –
As the ‘Siegfried‘ leitmotif from Act III of Wagner’s opera played in the background – Arnold Schwarzenegger, the last gasp of the dream of the Aryan ‘Uberman‘, was spawned on this date.
I’m not quite sure that an overly greased muscle man in a speedo (who would become the governor of a bankrupt US state and fathered children out of wed-lock) was what Hitler had in mind, but who knows.
The Haus of Dcaligari 