Editing Winifred Wagner (section)

===Post-Bayreuth years===
[[File:Wahnfried 2 db.jpg|thumb|Wagner's home, Haus [[Wahnfried]], the location of [[Hans-Jürgen Syberberg]]'s 1976 documentary film ''Winifred Wagner und die Geschichte des Hauses Wahnfried 1914–1975'']]

Like Hitler, Wagner believed profoundly in the rite of a [[Secular religion|secular cult]] of [[German nationalism]], of [[Nordic race|Nordic]] self-realization, and ''[[völkisch]]'' aspiration. After the defeat of [[Nazi Germany]], a [[denazification]] court banned her from the Bayreuth Festival, which she passed to her sons Wieland and Wolfgang.<ref name=":0" /> In the 1950s, she again became a political hostess. Her grandson Gottfried Wagner later recalled that
<blockquote>"My aunt Friedelind was outraged when my grandmother again slowly blossomed as the first lady of right-wing groups and received political friends such as [[Emmy Göring]], [[Ilse Hess]], the former NPD [[Adolf von Thadden]], [[Gerdy Troost]], the wife of the Nazi architect and friend of Hitler [[Paul Ludwig Troost]], the British fascist leader [[Oswald Mosley]], the German NS-movie director [[Karl Ritter (director)|Karl Ritter]] and the racist author and former Senator of the Reich [[Hans Severus Ziegler]]."<ref>Gottfried Wagner, ''Wer nicht mit dem Wolf heult – Autobiographische Aufzeichnungen eines Wagner-Urenkels'' (Cologne, 1997), p. 69 (quotation translated from the German)</ref></blockquote>

In 1975, Wagner gave a filmed interview to [[Hans-Jürgen Syberberg]] in which she appeared unrepentant concerning her past. "To have met him [Hitler]," she declared, "is an experience I would not have missed."<ref>{{Citation |title=Winifred Wagner - THE CONFESIONS - Interview Syberberg 1975 -COMPLETE HD | date=16 May 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_zqMxv0jTg |language=en |access-date=2023-02-16}}</ref> She was interviewed that year by [[David Irving]], who reported that she had said she would still welcome Hitler at her door and that she had discussed with Hitler the saving of some individuals.<ref>{{Cite web |title=David Irving's Action Report On-line |url=http://www.fpp.co.uk/Hitler/Wagner/Hamann1.html |access-date=2023-02-16 |website=www.fpp.co.uk}}</ref> She died in [[Überlingen]], one of the best preserved medieval sites, on the shore of [[Lake Constance]] on 5 March 1980 at the age of 82 and was interred at Bayreuth.