• BelieveRevolt@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Kind of a chicken and the egg thing, since his anti-Semitic book The International Jew influenced the Nazis.

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        1 year ago

        Nazism and it’s tenants have existed for a long time, the Nazis just gave the concentrated ideology a name.

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      1 year ago

      I heard in a Citations Needed episode that he funded schools so they would teach country music and tap dancing to children to suppress the cultural permeation of jazz music and some other non-white genre.

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        Exactly. He despised jazz and black Americans. That cultural permeation of tap dancing still remains to this day in fact.