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The Aryan race is a concept historically influential in European culture in the period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It derives from the idea that the ...
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Holocaust question: Why did Hitler want a 'pure' Aryan race? Hitler wanted a pure Aryan race, people with blue eyes, blonde hair, muscular (in the case of men) and beautiful (the ...
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Aryan Race, name for the white race used by white supremacists, who claim the superiority of certain whites to other people. In Nazi Germany, the term was narrowed to refer to certain “pure” Germans. In linguistics, it is sometimes used to refer to people who speak any of the Indo-European family of languages.

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concept of the Aryan race used to justify persecution and conquest, see Adolf Hitler: Mein Kampf; Adolf Hitler: Hitler's Racial Policies

Nazi persecution of Jews as non-Aryans, see Anti-Semitism: Organized Anti-Semitism as a Political Tool; Genocide: Types of Genocide; Holocaust: Pre-World War II Persecution of German Jews

writers who promoted the idea of Aryan superiority, see Joseph Gobineau; Houston Stewart Chamberlain

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