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Jacques de Kadt (1887 - 1988) was a prominent and often controversial 20th Century Dutch political thinker and |
Jacques de Kadt (1887 - 1988) was a prominent and often controversial 20th Century Dutch political thinker, politician and man of letters. Born in Oss into a liberal Jewish family, he was the youngest son of a factory manager, Roelof de Kadt, and his wife Bertha Koppens. Author of numerous books and articles, his most important and influential work was, arguably, his remarkably prescient book ''Het fascisme en de nieuwe vrijheid '' (Fascism and the New Freedom) which was published in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War. |
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Jacques de Kadt (1887 - 1988) was a prominent and often controversial 20th Century Dutch political thinker, politician and man of letters. Born in Oss into a liberal Jewish family, he was the youngest son of a factory manager, Roelof de Kadt, and his wife Bertha Koppens. Author of numerous books and articles, his most important and influential work was, arguably, his remarkably prescient book Het fascisme en de nieuwe vrijheid (Fascism and the New Freedom) which was published in 1939, shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War.
References:
http://www.iisg.nl/bwsa/bios/kadt.html
http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn4/kadt