That's the only thing I could think of, the Wagnerian problem. But, like, neo-fascists haven't tainted all of the old Germanic heroic folklore, like Siegfried and company?

I hadn't heard of it as a problem, and the first page of google hits is all about the recent Tom Cruise movie and its historical basis, so I wanted to check with some contemporary Germans. Though in my Goethe class, we had a brief discussion about the word "Führer," which carries a certain stigma in non-Germany places, but it doesn't as much in Germany. Führerschein, Stadtführer, usw. Over here, there's only one person it refers to, because most Americans are only familiar with Germany from shitty WW2 movies.