Hitler referred to Landsberg as the “university” where he gave himself a crash course in eugenics. (Later, he allowed his name to be used in advertisements for Hoche and Binding’s book.) His bible on the subject was The Passing of the Great Race, a hodgepodge of racist pseudoscience, anti-immigration rants, and archaeological poppycock by a dapper, mustachioed Yale graduate named Madison Grant. Throughout the book, Grant refers to the descendants of the Mayflower families as the real “native Americans.” The thrust of his argument was that the Nordic “race” (a fictitious amalgam of Swedes,
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