Petty: The Plot Against Civilization pp. 181-186
Webster imagines a strange alliance between Bismark and the Jewish conspiracy. We have to remember that an alliance between a German leader and a Jewish group only looks really strange because we are living post WWII; otherwise, we might just have a case of Bismark reaching out to a banker who happens to be Jewish. Luckily (?) we get some actual details from her. The person that Bismark found was Ferdinand Lasalle. She introduces Lasalle as, “ the son of a rich Hebrew Merchant …” who was “ tormented from his youth by hatred of the Christian races, whose blood even as a schoolboy he hoped to shed.” This information comes from a biography of Lasalle by Georg Brandes. If you were a student of mine, you should know the name of Brandes. Brandes is the person that wrote an influential biography of William Shakespeare. It was so influential that it forced Sigmund Freud to become a Shakespeare denier since Brandes puts the date of Hamlet’s writing before John Shakespeare died thus throwi...