Question

What groups did the Nazis deem unfit to belong to belong to the Aryan “master race”?

Answer 1

Hint:
- The Nazi Party, formally the National Socialist German Workers' Party, was a far-right political party active in Germany from 1920 to 1945. They developed and promoted the Nazi ideology.
- Nazism is a fascist philosophy that opposes the parliamentary system and liberal democracy. Its beliefs include anti-communism, fervent anti-Semitism, and scientific racism.
- The term "Aryan" was applied not only to Indo-Iranian communities. It is also used to refer native Indo-European speakers such as the Romans, Greeks, and Germans.

Complete answer:
In Nazi ideology, Aryan or the putative Nordic races, which are prevalent among Germans and other northern European peoples, were considered as the highest in the racial hierarchy. The members of this supposed master race ("master humans") were known as Herrenmenschen. Alfred Rosenberg, a Nazi scholar, argued that the Nordic peoples were originated from Proto-Aryans who lived prehistorically on the North German Plain and may have eventually originated on the lost continent of Atlantis.

The Nordics, or Aryans, were declared superior to all other races by the Nazis. The Nazis claimed they had the right to extend their territory. Nordicism is the name given to this idea. The Aryan certificate was created as a result of the Nazis' actual policy. The "Lesser Aryan certificate," which was mandated by law for all Reich citizens, was a document.

An Ahnenpass, which allowed the owner to trace their ancestry by baptism, birth certificates, or certified evidence that all grandparents were of "Aryan origin," could be obtained. Slavs along with Gypsies and Jews were labeled as racially inferior and non-Aryan peoples. Therefore, they were considered as a threat to the "Aryan" or Germanic master race.

According to the Nazi secret Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost, the Nazis decided to expel, enslave, and exterminate the Slavic population in Central Europe.

Note:
- Max Müller is known as the first English writer to mention the "Aryan race." Müller referred to Aryans as a "species of humans" in his Lectures on the Science of Language.
- In 1831, Otto Schrader, Rudolph von Jhering, and Robert Hartmann suggested that the word "Aryan" be banned from anthropology.
- The Aryan race was called as one of the ten main racial groups of mankind in the 1944 edition of Rand McNally's World Atlas.