THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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38.) This element spewed in the reflections of German politicians, sociologists, antropologists and other scholars an important role sobon before the war. It was taken over by the well-known theories of the French Count A.de Gobinseau, who in 1854 published his book "Essai sur 1' inégalité des races humaines"; this Buoh became the subject of his studies since the year l8yo in Deutsohland and caused a whole movement there. Similarly, in Germany the books of the newer French antropologist Vacher de Lapouge were studied, who agreed with Gobineau the thesis on the inequality of the races of men and on the undeniable superiority d de If these works and these theses were sohonly distributed and studied by the German Wissensohaft long before the war of the year l9l4, they were transferred in a brilliant way another non-deutsaher, the Englishman Houston Steward Chamberlain into politics, who in 1899 published his famous work Die Grundlagen des 19 Jahr-undes, which is not too much appreciated by philosophers and historians, however, since it was very widely distributed before the War and successfully used in practical politics. This work describes the role and mission of the Aryan race in the development of humanity in detailed synthesises and unclear, spiritual generalizations. Ty- pian Aryans are therefore the Germanic I to you all the great thing, what the Ararians have done in history. Therefore, this race is also the best and highest