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During the period under investigation, anti-Semitism had a variety of aspects in Germany: religious, cultural, political and, of course, racial. Anti-Semitism is a form of prejudice which has occasioned some of the most notorious acts of persecution in the history of mankind; and since it has over the centuries exhibited all of the typical features of extreme racism, anti-Semitism is often regarded as the prototype of racially inspired hatred as well as of other social and political prejudices. Wolfgang Benz, for instance, takes anti-Semitism as a paradigm for the formation and study of prejudices and political instrumentalizations of Feindbilder (Benz 2002, p. 15). The main focus of this chapter is the British-born propagandist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who exerted a major influence on German nationalism and anti-Semitism from the late nineteenth century onwards, and whose views appealed to twentieth-century nationalist extremists and anti-Semites, most notably Adolf Hitler.
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Rash, F. (2012). Anti-Semitism in Discourse. In: German Images of the Self and the Other. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030214_4
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