Aryanism; The master race: What truly happened to the 'perfect ' race.
"All the human culture, all there results of art, science, and technology, that we see before us today, are almost exclusively the creative product of the Aryan. This very fact admits of the not unfounded inference that he alone was the founder of all higher humanity, therefore representing the prototype of all that we understand by the word of 'man. ' He is the Prometheus of mankind ... It was he who laid the foundations and erected the walls of every great structure in human culture. " - Adolf Hitler, from his book Mein Kamf (1925-26). Hitler is known to the world as a twisted killer, bent on the destruction of the Jews. Not only did he harm Jews though, but he targeted everyone who did not fall under the strict standards he had set for creating the "perfect" race to rule the world with. When Hitler came to power, his plan had two parts to it, the first part was to exterminate the imperfect people of the world then the second part was to reproduce and create the Aryan race. In order to
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This race is known as the Aryan race, made up from people described to have European and Western Asian heritage. The ideals for this race were developed around the ideas coming from the book "Racial science of the German people." by Gunther. He describes how the Germans were split up into the 5 different sub-types, with the Aryan/Nordic being the most pure out of them. Blue eyed, blonde haired, long-legged, and slim narrow faces were the ideals for the Aryan race, measurements of skull and nose sizes were taken for both them and the Jews. In many of the propaganda posters that were used for the Aryan race, you can see the ideals in place. Later on in WWII, the standards became even more narrowed, with the height being raised to 6"6 for a male Aryan to be considered top-line pure. Any women apart of the Aryan race had to provide lineage and prove their family was pure back to their grandparents as
Rowan McCarthy Kim ½ Period 6 Race: A Ruinous Colonial Construct For hundreds of years, humans have been separated into groups based on cosmetic, and supposedly genetic differences, called race. However, although there might be some cosmetic variation between races, there are no real genetic differences. Since humans originated in Africa, every gene originated there, and race is a concentrated version of those traits based on settlers in that area, although many genes did get passed around the world through trade.
The Nazi regime's belief in the superiority of the Aryan race was based on pseudoscientific theories that claimed that certain races were superior to others. The theories were not based on scientific evidence and were instead used to justify the Nazi regime's policies of racial discrimination and genocide. The Nazi regime believed that the Jews were a racially inferior group and that they posed a threat to the Aryan race. It led to the implementation of policies that were aimed at the persecution and elimination of the Jewish people.
The Holocaust is considered one of the most notable events to happen in human history. Adolf Hitler’s plan was to exterminate all races of which he thought was inferior to his master race, The Aryan Race. To effectively kill them, he made concentration camps where the prisoners would be worked to death. Sadly, most of the races targeted and killed were the Jews. They were blamed for everything such as World War I and World War II.
Aryanization was used by the Nazis to either help gain supporters or reward their already faithful followers. Even though there were still a lot of non-Jews who were not a part of the Holocaust, one way in which many instantly became involved was through Aryanization. In order to “de-Jew” the economy, all of the property and money owned by the Jews had to be taken. There were some moments during the Holocaust where Aryanization increased dramatically. One event was Kristallnacht.
Many became sick from the diseases they injected, couldn't walk, would fade in and out of consciousness, die or carry on and regain wellness. The goal of these experiments was to create blond hair, blue-eyed babies in multiple numbers. These were the traits wanted for Hitler’s “Master Race”, which were Aryans, pure Germans. (Fox 5).
A very controversial topic of discussion today involves the difference between the biological and social view of race. The biological view sees a population according to traits that are passed down biologically, this is where the term “race” comes from. It would be somewhat accurate to say that people from different parts of the world have some differences biologically. The issue in this argument is found when people see that there may be some differences biologically but try to segregate them into fixed categories. What is found by this is that by assessing this biology and peoples' appearance, you can categorize them into a specific race.
During WWII, the anti-Semitic Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler emphasized purity of race and opposed any forms of variation in the racial distribution of his country. To achieve his goals of racial purity, Hitler began to unfairly assert that the reason for the humiliating defeat of Germany was the betrayal of the Jewish population in the country. Through his memoir and propaganda, he provoked the public to discriminate against the Jews, or even eliminate them completely in the country. In addition, Hitler utilized many unethical and unjust means against the Jews such as destroying all the books written by Jews, and shutting down all Jewish-owned business. He even enacted the law to humiliate the Jews, and make them to become the targets of the public by forcing them to wear a yellow star mark.
Hitler, Nazi’s and Eugenics The Nazi’s were strongly influenced by Eugenics movements, believing that Germany and the world could be improved by eliminating the so-called inferiors, as they believed this would increase productivity as well as reduce crime. While Hitler’s beliefs on Eugenics were based on policies to try and improve the Aryan race. The Aryan race was the German’s “Master Race,” Aryans were supposed to be Nordic in appearance and were meant to be directly ancestral to Germans.
Hitler murdered millions of the Jewish people because he believed Jews were of a lesser race and they deserved to die because they ran most of the banks. Hitler’s mass genocide of the Jews and others that he viewed as not perfect, was mostly biased on the fact that he thought he was cleaning the world and he never thought of it as corrupt. Hitler’s actions of killing innocent people is also much like Macbeths murderous behavior, in which they both put morals to the side, to get what they
Germany’s Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses, or Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased offspring, considered vague and poorly defined criteria like “Congenital Mental Deficiency” as entirely valid criteria for forced sterilization (Miller, 193). However, while America’s largest eugenics-based atrocities mostly are restrained to sterilization, Nazi Germany had no such limitations. After making efforts to sterilize those that were seen as Die Untermenschen, or “sub-humans”, Germany expanded their efforts to remove those human elements that were seen as more useful alive than dead. Championing an Aryan “master race”, Nazi Germany opened exterminations camps and systematically murdered those were who were not only seen as racially inferior, but socially useless.
He gave examples of historical evidence that he believed to be true. He claimed that cultures have always been led by the higher race. If the higher race mixed with or accepted the lower race then the culture would be destroyed or the entire race of people would be eliminated. He gave examples of the “mingling of Aryan blood with that of the lower people will result as the end of the cultured people”(313). He claimed “no more than Nature desires the mating of a weaker with stronger individuals, even less does she desire the blending of a higher with a lower race...over perhaps hundreds of thousands of years, might be ruined with one blow”(313).
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945) was the Reich Leader (Reichsführer) of the formidable SS of the Nazi party from 1929 until 1945. Himmler oversaw a vast ideological and bureaucratic empire that defined him for many both inside and outside the Nazi party as the second most powerful man in Germany during World War II. Heinrich Himmler was viewed as the prime architect for the planning and implementation for the Holocaust due to the effect of his social view on the design and his role as Head of the SS and Security to implement the Final Solution. Heinrich Himmler’s view of non-Aryan people, especially Jews was a significant factor in the planning of the Holocaust.
This was established by Hitler that claimed that it was not right was races and cultures to mix and reproduce with one another. He discusses this in his work entitled, Mein Kampf. The purpose of this written work was to convince the German people why it was unnatural, and not wise to mix the races and cultures. The idea behind this was that it would make people weaker to mix with races that aren’t as superior as the race the Hitler preferred. This is explained when he says, “The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness.”
For instance, Hitler believed in ‘Volksgemeinschaft’ a community formed of racially pure people, typically full-blooded German people and anyone who did not fit into this idealistic such as Gypsies, Jews, Disabled People and other minorities -living in Germany- were either killed or sent to concentration camps to work to their death. Throughout Hitlers total dictactorship 11 million people were killed, 6 million of which were
Nazi Germany classified the Aryan race as the superior race. The Jews were inferior and were seen using their hair, eyes, and facial structures. In Australia the Europeans were classified as superior and the aborigines were inferior because they were black and primitive. Both Nazi Germany and the Europeans had a high sense of superiority. The Europeans in Australia didn’t need to search for differences because they were obvious.