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For example, Stahl (1802-1861) became leader of the Conservative Party, founded the Kreuz-Zeitung and supervised it. Meanwhile the Jew Simson (1810-1896) was chosen to present the Prussian Kaiser Wilhelm with the crown of Prussia and the imperial crown. This made every Jewish breast swell proudly, for one of them had played the role of intermediary between the people and their emperor.

The movement to combat the Jews in eighteenth-century Germany alternately flared and subsided until Wagner issued his essay on the Jews in music in 1850. It provoked a fierce campaign against him for nearly ten years, as well as a resentment and hatred supposedly inherited to the present. Men such as Franz Werfel and Emil Ludwig did not hesitate to rank Wagner below Faraday and Bizet. It goes without saying, the chapter asserts, that they attacked Wagner only because his art was purely German. He was the one who revived the stirring German songs and built them into the German people's inmost consciousness.

Ten years after Wagner's book, Bucher produced his book On the Jews and the German Environment, which remained in circulation until 1879. During that period Jews allegedly maneuvered in the financial markets, severely threatening the future of many German financiers and ending in the bankruptcy of many of them.

In 1876 Otto Glagau published his work On the Stock Exchange and the Cause of Its Misfortunes