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Herrenvolk
Herrenvolk (German: die Herrenrasse, das Herrenvolk), interpreted as 'master race', was a concept in Nazi ideology in which a supposed Nordic people, as a branch of what in a late-19th and early-20th century racialist taxonomy was called the Aryan race, represented an ideal and "pure race". In Nazi ideology this "Nordic" race was the purest example of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans, whom the Nazis believed to have prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain and to have ultimately originated from the lost continent of Atlantis.
The Nazis declared that the Nordics, or in their mythology, the Germanic peoples, were the true Aryans because they were less racially mixed with "non-native" Indo-European peoples than other people of what were then called the Aryan peoples (now generally called the Indo-European peoples), such as the Slavic peoples, the Romance peoples and the Indo-Iranian peoples.
Based on this claim that the "Nordic" peoples were superior to all other races, the Nazis believed they were entitled to world domination. This concept is known as Nordicism.
The Nazis maintained that for example the Northern Russians had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye color and were racially fit to be a part of the master race. The Nazis also considered some percentages of young Slavs like Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, and Belarusians to be the sufficient subjects for Germanisation. However, it was believed that for instance the Polish people were too patriotic and would ultimately resist Germanisation, what resulted in the Generalplan Ost, according to which all of the Slavs from East-Central Europe were destined to be expelled from the European continent by the Third Reich. Nevertheless, the Nazi Germans eventually decided to exterminate the Poles, so as the vast majority of the Slavic people who, along with the Jews and Gypsies, were defined as untermenschen, dangerous for the Germanic peoples representing the master race
Netherland, IJmuiden / Reenactment WWII / 01 april 2012.
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Herrenvolk
Herrenvolk (German: die Herrenrasse, das Herrenvolk), interpreted as 'master race', was a concept in Nazi ideology in which a supposed Nordic people, as a branch of what in a late-19th and early-20th century racialist taxonomy was called the Aryan race, represented an ideal and "pure race". In Nazi ideology this "Nordic" race was the purest example of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans, whom the Nazis believed to have prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain and to have ultimately originated from the lost continent of Atlantis.
The Nazis declared that the Nordics, or in their mythology, the Germanic peoples, were the true Aryans because they were less racially mixed with "non-native" Indo-European peoples than other people of what were then called the Aryan peoples (now generally called the Indo-European peoples), such as the Slavic peoples, the Romance peoples and the Indo-Iranian peoples.
Based on this claim that the "Nordic" peoples were superior to all other races, the Nazis believed they were entitled to world domination. This concept is known as Nordicism.
The Nazis maintained that for example the Northern Russians had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye color and were racially fit to be a part of the master race. The Nazis also considered some percentages of young Slavs like Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, and Belarusians to be the sufficient subjects for Germanisation. However, it was believed that for instance the Polish people were too patriotic and would ultimately resist Germanisation, what resulted in the Generalplan Ost, according to which all of the Slavs from East-Central Europe were destined to be expelled from the European continent by the Third Reich. Nevertheless, the Nazi Germans eventually decided to exterminate the Poles, so as the vast majority of the Slavic people who, along with the Jews and Gypsies, were defined as untermenschen, dangerous for the Germanic peoples representing the master race
Netherland, IJmuiden / Reenactment WWII / 01 april 2012.
No glorification, no heroism, just history.
© All rights reserved.
This Image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed,
republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or trasmitted
in any forms or by any means, including electronic,
mechanical, photocopying & recording without My written
permission.