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© Copyright Peter Crawford 2013 Die Okkulten Ursprünge der arischen Rasse (Occult Origins of the Aryan Race) DIE HERRENRASSE - The Master Race The concept of the Herrenrasse partially derives from the idea of the Übermensch (Over-man or Superman) which was a concept in the philosophy of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (see right). He posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Also Sprach Zarathustra - (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) (see left). In Nietzsches terms the Übermensch was the ideal aim of spiritual development and more than just a biological goal. The German Occultists and Thulists, however, rightly saw that there could be no spiritual development without a concomitant physical (biological) and therefore racial transformation. (Herrenrasse should not be confused with the term Ubermensch. The former is the precursor of the latter.) The Thule Swastika As Hitler said: It is my ultimate aim to perform an act of creation, a divine operation, the goal of a biological mutation which will result in an unprecedented exaltation of the human race, and the appearance of a new race of heroes, demi-gods and god-men. The origins of the Thulist version of the theory of the master race were in 19th-century racial theories of Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau, who argued that cultures degenerated when distinct races mixed - (see above). Proponents of Nordic theory further argued that Nordic peoples had developed innate toughness and determination due to the harsh, challenging climate in which they evolved. The racial ideal of these theorists was the tall, blond and light eyed Nordic individual. Tall, Blond Nordic Arthur Schopenhauer The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (see left) was one of the earliest proponents of a theory presenting a hierarchical racial model of history, attributing civilisational primacy to the white races who gained their sensitivity and intelligence by refinement in the rigorous north. Accordingly, the highest civilisation and culture is found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest. (Hans Frank - see right, Hitlers personal lawyer, stated that Hitler carried a copy of Schopenhauers book Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (The World as Will and Representation) with him wherever he went throughout World War I.) Nevertheless, such theorists usually accepted that considerable variety of hair and eye colour existed even within the racial categories they recognised. Contrary to the popular urban legend myth, the Nazis did not discriminate against Aryans who did not have blonde hair or light-eyes, or had only one of these features. Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials had dark hair and were still considered to be a Aryan. (The term Aryan derives from the Sanskrit word (a´rya), which derived from arya, the original Indo-Iranian autonym meaning noble) The postulated superiority of these people was said to make them born leaders, and hence to appelation Herrenrasse - (Master-race) Other authors included Guido von List (see left), and his associate Lanz von Liebenfels (see right), and the British racial theorist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, all of whom felt that the white race and Germanic peoples were superior to others, and that given the purification of the white race and German people from the races who were polluting it, a new millennial age of Aryan god-men would arrive. By the late 19th century and early 20th century, it was posited that the Indo-Europeans (then generally also referred to as Aryans) made up the highest branch of humanity because their civilization was the most spiritually and technologically advanced. This reasoning simultaneously intertwined with Nordicism which proclaimed the Nordic race as the purest form of said Aryan race. die Herrenrasse die Herrenrasse In Hitlers ideology the concept of the superiority of the Aryan races was crystallized in the term die Herrenrasse or das Herrenvolk (master race), and in particular the Nordic peoples which represented an ideal and pure race that was the purest representation of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans. German racial specialists maintained that the Poles and Northern Russians had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye color and could be considered racially fit for Germanisation. They also considered that a certain percentages of Czechs, Ukrainians, and Belarusians to be racially fit to be German. The Nordic race was the purest example of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans, whom the German Völkisch philosophers believed to have prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain and to have ultimately originated from the lost continent of Atlantis. The German Völkisch philosophers declared that the Nordics, (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, 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 German Völkisch philosophers believed the Aryans were entitled to world domination. This concept is known as Nordicism. The German Völkisch philosophers maintained that many of the Slavs that had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye color were thus seen to be racially fit to be a part of the master race. The German Völkisch philosophers in accordance with this considered some Russians, some Poles, some Czechs and some Belarusians to be sufficient subjects for Germanisation in order to be considered Aryan, 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 most of the Slavs from East-Central Europe were destined to be expelled from the European continent by the Third Reich. Mendelian genetics was rediscovered in 1900, providing the basis of the genetic inheritance maps used by Völkisch eugenicists to identify persons of the Jewish race. By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was posited that the Aryans made up the highest branch of humanity because their civilization was the most technologically advanced. This reasoning simultaneously intertwined with Nordicism which proclaimed the Nordic race as the purest form of said Aryan race. As such, this Nordic race came to be regarded as the master race because of its innate leadership qualities and advancements in civilization. The hierarchy of races is also based on darkness of skin color. This concept was largely initially developed by Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau. Gobineaus basic concept, as further refined and developed in Völkisch theory, places the black Aboriginal Australians and African savages at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans (consisting of Germans, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Irish and Dutch) are at the top; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans (consisting of the Spanish, Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i.e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race) in the upper middle ranks; Slavs (Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry), were placed lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants. Also those of the olive-skinned Semitic race (another sub-race of the Caucasian race) were in the middle rank (it was because the Jews, being Semites, were clever that they were so dangerous—they had their own plan for Jewish world domination, a conspiracy that had to be opposed by all Aryans); and those of the yellow Mongoloid race (including its offshoots the brown Malayan race and the red American Indian race), the Dravidian race, the Hamitic race (regarded as another sub-race of the Caucasian race), and mixed-race people such as Eurasians, the bronze Mestizos, Mulattos, Afro-Asians, and Zambos in the lower middle ranks.
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