“We are deeply affected by this tragic fate, Jew and Jesuit can now triumph again!”
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Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Houston Stewart Chamberlain was a British-German-French philosopher. His writings on political philosophy and natural science influenced Adolf Hitler, among many others, attributing all world accomplishments to the Germanic race. Chamberlain promoted German ethnonationalism, antisemitism, scientific racism, and Nordicism; he has been described as a "racialist writer". His best-known book, the two-…
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politics · British-German racialist philosopher (1855–1927) · racial theorist · politician · philosopher · essayist · political scientist · writer · also Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Chamberlain
Born 9 September 1855 · Died 9 January 1927 · Q57737
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2026· 14 entries
“s wartime writings against the”
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“is a hellish whirlpool, in which all the contradictions of the world, all the greed, envy and lust brew and simmer; a wild struggle of millions of ignorant egotists, men without ideas, ideals, or traditions, without shared values, without any capacity for sacrifice, an atomic chaos endowed with no true power of nature”
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“disappear from society to make money”
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“s greatest power, both for its own good and for the good of the rest of the world. In his letter, Chamberlain dismissed France as a second-rate nation that could only fall further; Russia was a nation of”
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“chosen the service of Mammon”
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“Consider, with what mastery they use the law of blood to extend their power.”
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“remained spotless ... thousands of side-branches are cut off and employed to infect Indo-Europeans with Jewish blood.”
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Now to Love NZ: Lindy Chamberlain reflects on Azaria’s life and the decades-long fight for justice
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NewsCenter1: Chamberlain outlasts RC Christian in a high-scoring affair - Rapid City, South Dakota | News, Weather and Sports
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Wilfrid Laurier University: Savvas Chamberlain building envelope repairs and Quad partial closure - Monday, August 24 to Friday, October 16, 2026
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Grateful Web: Edie Brickell, Matt Chamberlain, Kaveh Rastegar and Mason Stoops Share “Bleeding In The Dark”
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Yahoo Sports: Team’s Up – Oxlade-Chamberlain starts, Hassan and Baur on bench
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1936· 1 entry
When Hitler brought in the First Four Year Plan which saw the German state take over the economy); his vision of Germany becoming the Volksgemeinschaft (people's community"); his demand for a "third way" between capitali
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1932· 1 entry
In an essay entitled "Anti-Semitics" denouncing antisemitism, the "homeless left" German journalist Carl von Ossietzky wrote: Intellectual anti-Semitism was the special prerogative of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who, in
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1930· 2 entries
“I felt electrified; I wrote down the title and went straight to the bookshop.”
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Rosenberg published The Myth of the Twentieth Century, a homage to and continuation of Chamberlain's work
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1927· 4 entries
Died 1927-01-09.
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“We have stopped up the spring that welled up in our own hearts and made ourselves dependent upon the scanty, brackish water which the beduins of the desert draw from their wells.”
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“That Indian thought has clearly exercised a determinative influence upon Greek philosophy is now a settled fact; of course, our Hellenists and philosophers have long disputed this with the violent obstinacy of prejudiced scholars; everything was supposed to have originated autonomously in Hellas; at most the Egyptians and Semites were supposed to have exercised a shaping influence ...”
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“Not only the Jew, but also all that is derived from the Jewish mind, corrodes and disintegrates what is best in us.”
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1923· 3 entries
Chamberlain met Adolf Hitler in Bayreuth, and in September he sat in his wheelchair next to Hitler during the völkisch "German Day" paramilitary parade
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Wilhelm wrote to tell Chamberlain of his belief that not only were the Jews "not our religious forebears", but that Jesus was "not a Jew", was instead an Aryan "of exceptional beauty, tall and slim with a noble face insp
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And in 1926, together with Joseph Goebbels) at the Wagner family's property in Bayreuth
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1922· 2 entries
“No knowledgeable person, can doubt that the enemy is at work among us ... whenever England has something up her sleeve against the interests of Germany, she uses the Frankfurter Zeitung.”
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To tell him that thanks to his essays, he had become a Marcionist and now rejected the Old Testament
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1919· 1 entry
That Germany was now under the "supremacy of the Jews"
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1917· 4 entries
That: "Had Hindenburg and Ludendorff stood on the first day in their rightful place, the peace would in all probability have been dictated in Paris before the end of 1914
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“Had Hindenburg and Ludendorff stood on the first day in their rightful place, the peace would in all probability have been dictated in Paris before the end of 1914.”
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Chamberlain wrote about the liberal Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper: "No knowledgeable person, can doubt that the enemy is at work among us
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The Auswärtiges Amt worked hard to prevent Chamberlain's essays with their strong anti-American content from appearing abroad out of the fear that they would offend opinion in America
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1916· 2 entries
That Wilhelm had an "absolute incapability for judging character" and was now being "forced to obey a Frankfurt pimp", the last being a disparaging reference to Bethmann Hollweg
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“absolute incapability for judging character”
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1915· 3 entries
“My lawyer friend in Munich tells me there is no living being whom the Jews hate more than I.”
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Chamberlain wrote proudly in a letter to a friend that: "My lawyer friend in Munich tells me there is no living being whom the Jews hate more than I
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An unauthorised translation of Chamberlain's wartime essays was published in London under the title of The Ravings of a Renegade
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1914· 1 entry
Chamberlain tried to enlist in the German Army, but was turned down on account of his age (then 58) and bad health
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1912· 1 entry
That he had become a Zionist because he believed there was no future for Jews in Germany, and one of the reasons for that belief was: Chamberlain believes what he says and for that very reason his distortions shock me
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1911· 1 entry
Wilhelm II became the Schattenkaiser (the "Shadow Emperor"), an increasingly reclusive figure who was seen less and less in public
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1909· 1 entry
Some months before his 17th birthday, Rosenberg picked up a copy of Chamberlain's The Foundations and wrote of the moment: "I felt electrified; I wrote down the title and went straight to the bookshop
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1908· 3 entries
The Harden–Eulenburg affair badly damaged Wilhelm's reputation when Wilhelm's and Chamberlain's mutual friend Eulenburg was exposed in the press as a homosexual
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Twenty-five years after Wagner's death, Chamberlain married Eva von Bülow-Wagner, Franz Liszt's granddaughter and Richard Wagner's daughter (Wagner had started fathering children by Cosima while she was still married to
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After Cosima Wagner suggested the match, Chamberlain married Wagner's daughter Eva von Bülow
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1906· 2 entries
The Brazilian intellectual Sílvio Romero cited Chamberlain together with Otto Ammon, Georges Vacher de Lapouge and Arthur de Gobineau as having proved that the blond "dolichocephalic" people of northern Europe were the b
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About Eulenburg's role as one of Germany's chief antisemites:
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1904· 1 entry
When the German government committed the Herero and Nama Genocide against the Herero and Nama peoples in German South-West Africa, Chamberlain congratulated Wilhelm in a letter for his genocidal policies, praising the Ka
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1901· 1 entry
Wilhelm informed Chamberlain in a letter that: "God sent your book to the German people, just as he sent you personally to me, that is my unshakably firm conviction
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1900· 1 entry
For the first time in decades, Chamberlain visited Britain
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1899· 1 entry
Became highly influential in the pan-Germanic Völkisch movements of the early 20th century, and later influenced the antisemitism of Nazi racial policy
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1897· 1 entry
As Recherches sur la sève ascendante ("Studies on rising sap"), but this publication did not culminate in any further academic qualifications
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1896· 1 entry
Chamberlain wrote to his aunt:
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1895· 2 entries
Chamberlain wrote to his aunt about the Hamidian massacres in the Ottoman Empire during 1894–96:
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“s critique of the Jews as mindlessly materialistic, writing that Proudhon was”
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1894· 2 entries
“Unfortunately like everything else ... it has fallen into the hands of the Jews, which includes two consequences: every individual is bled to the utmost and systematically, and there is neither order nor cleanliness.”
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After visiting a spa, Chamberlain wrote: "Unfortunately like everything else
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1893· 1 entry
Chamberlain received a letter from Cosima Wagner telling him that he had to read Gobineau's Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines
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1888· 1 entry
Chamberlain wrote to his family proclaiming his joy at the death of the Emperor Friedrich III, a strong opponent of antisemitism whom Chamberlain called a "Jewish liberal", and rejoicing that his antisemitic son Wilhelm
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1881· 2 entries
When he described the landlords in Ireland affected by the Land Bill as "blood-sucking Jews"
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Earned a baccalaureate in physical and natural sciences
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1855· 1 entry
Born 1855-09-09.
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1800· 1 entry
Before Wagner was born, and thus omitted her husband
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