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The German Nazi Party adopted and developed several racial hierarchical categorizations as an important part of its fascist ideology (Nazism) in order to justify enslavement, extermination, ethnic persecution and other atrocities against ethnicities which it deemed genetically or culturally inferior. The Aryan race is a pseudoscientific concept that emerged in the late-19th century to describe people who descend from the Proto-Indo-Europeans as a racial grouping and it was accepted by Nazi thinkers. The Nazis considered the putative "Aryan race" a superior "master race" with Germanic peoples as representative of Nordic race being best branch, and they considered Jews, mixed-race people, Slavs, Romani, Black People, and certain other ethnicities racially inferior subhumans, whose members were only suitable for slave labor and extermination. In these ethnicities, Jews were considered the most inferior. However, the Nazis considered Germanic peoples such as Germans to be significantly mixed between different races, including the East Baltic race being considered inferior by the Nazis, and that their citizens needed to be completely Nordicized after the war. The Nazis also considered some non-Germanic groups such as Sorbs, Northern Italians, and Greeks to be of Germanic and Nordic origin. Some non-Aryan ethnic groups such as the Japanese were considered to be partly superior, while some Indo-Europeans such as Slavs, Romani, and South Asian people people were considered inferior.
These beliefs stemmed from a mixture of historical race concepts, 19th-century and early 20th century anthropology, 19th-century and early 20th-century biology, Racial biology, White supremacism, notions of Aryan racial superiority, Nordicism, Social Darwinism, German nationalism, and antisemitism with the selection of the most extreme parts. They also originated from German military alliance needs.[2][3] The term Aryan generally originated during the discourses about the use of the term Volk (the people constitute a lineage group whose members share a territory, a language, and a culture).[4] Unlike the German army (Wehrmacht) only used for military conflicts, the Schutzstaffel (SS) was a paramilitary organization directly controlled by the Nazis with absolute compliance with Nazi racial ideology and policies.
- ^ "Booklet". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016.
- ^ "Lebensraum". encyclopedia.ushmm.org. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
- ^ Strobl 2000, p. 61.
- ^ Hutton, Christopher Mark (2010). "Nazi Race Theory and Belief in an 'Aryan Race': A Profound Failure of Interdisciplinary Communication" (PDF). The International Journal of Science in Society. 1 (4). Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong: 149–156. doi:10.18848/1836-6236/CGP/v01i04/51498. S2CID 55938502.