Part 4: Understanding the Wars of 1914 to 1945

Part 4, The Rise of Hitler, the Nazi Party, The Jewish Holocaust and Racism Dr. Roger van Zwanenberg Part 4, The Rise of Hitler, the Nazi Party, The Jewish Holocaust and Racism Dr. Roger van Zwanenberg

#57 German Racism and her Intellectuals

The idea that white Germans were the ‘superior’ race developed in Germany tied in with European and American racist thinking. The Nazi reading of race came out of the work of Hans F. K. Gunther, who developed the Volk or Volkergruppe, people of a common hereditary with precise physical and spiritual habits. The concept of Aryan or Nordic races arose out of Gunther’s work.

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