ABSTRACT

Chamberlain's great work was Die Grundlagen des XIX. lahrhunderts (Foundations of the Nineteenth Century), published in 1900. In it he expounded a schematic view of past and future in which he saw Racism as the hope of mankind. He saw history as a struggle between the Germanic and Jewish races, the

The Bund structure became one of the principles of Volkism and spawned many offspring, notably the Pan-German Association founded in 1890. Veterans, associations and the Freikorps were infused with Bundisch ideas and a whole plethora of secret Volkist Biinde grew up after the war.