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If the Nazis thought that “Aryans” were the supreme race, did they consider anyone other than German speakers an Aryan? Since the Nazi conception of “Aryan” differed from the way the word was used by conventional historians and archeologists, who qualified?
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Since the Nazis loathed the Jews, how did they feel about Arabs and other Semitic people of the middle east? I can’t imagine the Nazis regarded African blacks very highly, but I’ve never heard they considered “schwartzes” worthy of extinction. What did the Nazis especially hate about the Jews, and to a lesser extent the Gypsies? (or were the Gypsies more the bugaboo of the eastern european Nazi-allied fascist groups?)
Asking how hatred of Jews fit their ideology is looking at things backwards, because hatred of Jews was * their ideology, the very core of their belief system, an a priori *assumption. Everything else was built up from that.
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I don’t know about the Nazi’s in particular, but modern equivalents (neo-nazis and skinheads) seem to consider the Vikings as being the ancestors of the Aryan people. So assuming that this held with the Nazis, then pretty much the more Scandinavian a person, the more they would have been accepted.
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I don’t believe the Nazis had a similar hate for Arabs as they did for Gypsies, Jews, and Homos, but they would still have disliked them. Proximity made the former groups much more of an issue though. As to “why”, essentially the Nazis hated these groups for the same reasons that the rest of Europe did–they just magnified it. The Jews were hated due to a history of being wanderers, usurers, and the slayers of Christ; Gypsies for being thieves and beggars; and gay people for being buggerers. There wasn’t any particular reason beyond that everyone just “knew” that these groups were the cause of pretty much all crime and evil in the nation.
The Nazi “race ideology” was always bent to whatever peoples they happened to be allied with. I think I read that Hitler referred to the Arabs as “Aryan brothers” and he did ally himself with the Grand Mufti Of Jerusalem - that Wiki page shows a unit of Arab SS troops, so they must not have been considered that bad, at least for pragmatic political purposes. I’ve also read of SS units composed of Ukrainians, Latvians, Armenians, Greeks - pretty much anyone who volunteered to help the Nazis and wasn’t Jewish was considered an honorary “Aryan.”
The anti-Semitism of the Nazis was superficially backed by pseudo-scientific racial B.S. but really goes far deeper and further back than that - the Jews were a people without land and without an army, and the two biggest things that Prussian culture had a hard-on for were land and military. These things embodied what it was to be a man for German culture centuries prior to Hitler’s takeover, and the Jews didn’t have them. They were something other, something sleazy and seedy since they dealt with money and trading instead of the time-honored, hands-in-the-dirt agricultural lifestyle that was heart and soul of the German people since Pagan days.
Just for the resord, while the SS troops in that picture are Muslim, they’re not Arab. The unit in the picture is the 13th Mountain Division of the First Croatian “Handschar” SS unit. It was mostly made up of Bosnian Muslims.
I read in Martin Gardner’s Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science that a Nazi journalist had a grandmother who was a Sioux Indian, and after much debate it was decided that Sioux Indians were Aryan. Gardner goes on to say that there are no such decisions on record for any other tribes.
The Nazi’s were more tolerant of Scandinavians than other folks, but IIRC they considered them to be misguided and kind of pitiful, what with all the peace-lovingness and all.