Nazi racial theories

The Nazi Party of Germany adopted and developed several pseudoscientific racial classifications as part of its ideology (Nazism) in order to justify the genocide of groups of people which it deemed racially inferior. The Nazis considered the putative "Aryan race" a superior "master race", and they considered Jews, black people, mixed-race people, Slavs (specifically groups such as Poles or Russians), Roma, Africans and certain other ethnicities racially inferior "sub-humans", whose members were only suitable for slave labor and extermination. These beliefs stemmed from a mixture of historical race concepts, 19th-century anthropology, scientific racism, and anti-Semitism, especially racial anti-Semitism. 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).[1]

  1. ^ 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.

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