Paul Anton de Lagarde | German political scientist | Britannica (original) (raw)

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antidemocratic views

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  In Thomas Mann: World War I and political crisis
  …German nationalistic and antidemocratic thinkers Paul Anton de Lagarde and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, the apostle of the superiority of the “Germanic” race, toward National Socialism; and Mann later was to repudiate these ideas.
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origins of fascism

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  In fascism: Intellectual origins
  Lagarde said of the Slavs that “the sooner they perish the better it will be for us and them,” and he called for the extermination of the Jews—a sentiment that was shared by his contemporary Langbehn. As John Weiss remarked of Lagarde and Langbehn, “The…
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