A French nobleman whose race theories influenced the Nazis. Gobineau believed that some races were superior to others the tall, blond, blue-eyed Nordic type was the most superior; the brown Negroid type was the least.<\/p>\n
Composer Richard Wagner (1813-83) was attracted by Gobineau\u2019s theories; they were also seized on and developed by his son-in-law Houston Stewart Chamber-Lain, who turned them towards German nationalism and anti-Semitism in his Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1899). During the next half-century, these ideas and distortions of these ideas became the ideology of the Nazi party, culminating in World War II and the Holocaust.<\/p>\n
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A French nobleman whose race theories influenced the Nazis. Gobineau believed that some races were superior to others the tall, blond, blue-eyed Nordic type was the most superior; the brown Negroid type was the least. Composer Richard Wagner (1813-83) was attracted by Gobineau\u2019s theories; they were also seized on and developed by his son-in-law Houston […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c"],"yoast_head":"\n