His anti-Semitism became a core of Nazi racial philosophy (Oakesmith 1919, Montagu 1997). In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Pan-German League, a movement of radical German elitists, joined the Gobineau Society in using the popularity of Chamberlain and Gobineau to disseminate Aryan racial theories and popularize nationalist versions of racial anthropology.

