However, Maurice Fishberg in Jews, Race and Environment (1911) cites widely different statistics to deny that the aquiline nose (or "hook nose") is characteristic of Jews, but rather to show that this type of nose occurs in all peoples of the world. Among Nazi racialists the "hooked", Jewish nose was a characteristic of Jews. In racialist discourse, especially that of post-Enlightenment Western scientists and writers, a Roman nose (in an individual or a people) has been characterized as a marker of beauty and nobility, but the notion itself is found early on in Plutarch, in his description of Mark Antony. Postage stamp (1943) displaying death mask of Nazi German official Reinhard Heydrich with an aquiline nose
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