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Article: Race, Intelligence, History...Old Tricks With New Twist
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- The Philadelphia Tribune
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- December 13, 1994
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David H. Strassler
Philadelphia Tribune, The
12-13-1994
Race, Intelligence, History...Old Tricks With New Twist.
By David H. Strassler
There is a long history of intellectual and scientific racism in the modern world that became a basis and support for governmental racial policies. In Nazi Germany, the destruction of European Jewry was made easier by the 19th century racist theories of Joseph A. Gobineau and Houston S. Chamberlain. While the centuries of Christian anti-Semitism and the conspiracy theories about Jews in the forged document "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" played a role in Nazi anti-Semitism, the crowning and defining feature was the notion of race, which meant that even ...