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" "[Y]et I think that we are inclined to under-estimate our own powers [...] and to exaggerate the importance of the Jewish influence. Hand in hand with this goes the perfectly ridiculous and revolting tendency to make the Jews the general scapegoat for all the vices of our time...
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (September 9, 1855 – January 9, 1927) was a British author, known for his antisemitic opinions whose best known work was The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century. Some of his writings later influencing the Nazis.
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