25 Facts About Lothrop Stoddard

Theodore Lothrop Stoddard was an American historian, journalist, political scientist and white supremacist.

Lothrop Stoddard advocated a racial hierarchy which he believed needed to be preserved through anti-miscegenation laws.

Lothrop Stoddard's books were once widely read both inside and outside the United States.

Lothrop Stoddard was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, where his books were recommended reading.

Lothrop Stoddard was a member of the American Eugenics Society as well as a founding member and board member of the American Birth Control League, which would later become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

Lothrop Stoddard traveled as a journalist in Germany during the first months of World War II, during which he received preferential treatment for interviews with Nazi officials and met briefly with Adolf Hitler.

Lothrop Stoddard was a member of the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Academy of Political Science.

In 1923, an expose by Hearst's International revealed that Lothrop Stoddard was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and had been acting as a consultant to the organization.

Lothrop Stoddard privately dismissed the Hearst magazine as a "radical-Jew outfit".

Lothrop Stoddard wrote many books, most of them related to race and civilization.

Lothrop Stoddard wrote primarily on the alleged dangers posed by "colored" peoples to white civilization.

Lothrop Stoddard develops this theme in The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy originally published in 1920 with an introduction by Madison Grant.

Lothrop Stoddard argued that race and heredity were the guiding factors of history and civilization and that the elimination or absorption of the "white" race by "colored" races would result in the destruction of Western civilization.

Lothrop Stoddard considered all three to be of good stock and far above the quality of the colored races, but argued that the "Nordic" was the greatest of the three, and needed to be preserved by way of eugenics.

Lothrop Stoddard considered most Jews to be racially "Asiatic" and argued for restricting Jewish immigration because he considered them a threat to Nordic racial purity in the US.

Lothrop Stoddard claimed that they were fundamentally different from other groups, they had no civilizations of their own, and had contributed nothing to the world.

Lothrop Stoddard opposed miscegenation, and said that "crossings with the negro are uniformly fatal".

Lothrop Stoddard advocated immigration restriction and birth control legislation to reduce the numbers of the underclass and promoted the reproduction of members of the middle and upper classes.

Lothrop Stoddard was one of several eugenicists who sat on the board of the American Birth Control League.

Du Bois, in responding to Lothrop Stoddard, said the reason for the audience laughter was that he had never journeyed under Jim Crow restrictions.

Between 1939 and 1940, Lothrop Stoddard spent four months as a journalist for the North American Newspaper Alliance in Nazi Germany.

Lothrop Stoddard received preferential treatment from Nazi officials compared to other journalists.

Lothrop Stoddard wrote a memoir, Into the Darkness: Nazi Germany Today, about his experiences in Germany.

Lothrop Stoddard visited the Hereditary Health Court in Charlottenburg, an appeals court that decided whether Germans would be sterilized.

Additionally, Lothrop Stoddard wrote several articles for The Saturday Evening Post.