German liberals, not conservatives, championed imperialist and racial doctrines

Evidence

“The true imperial party is the National Liberal Party.” Frymann, a prominent German chauvinist during the first World War, even adds with respect to the conservatives: “The aloofness of conservative milieus with regard to race doctrines is also worthy of note.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2232

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the module’s scaffolding on how hegemony and racial ideology attach to liberal rather than conservative political formations — connects to: Germany never developed liberalism as class-consciousness of a leading class — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 444