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A bit of explanation about nazi 'racism'...for anyone with an attention span.
27 Jun 2022 6:00 pm
The germans DID view racial purity as important. And they DID view jews as cynically confusing thr nations of other while keeping their own pure (a thing they are still doing, clearly).Huey » 27 Jun 2022, 5:47 pm » wrote: ↑ They didn’t care about skin color because there were not that many black Germans at the time BUT they were viewed as threat to the purity of the German race,
The Nazis viewed Afro-Germans—children with one African parent and one German parent—as a threat to the purity of the Germanic race. In his 1925 autobiography, Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Adolf Hitler charged that “the Jews had brought the ****** into the Rhineland with the clear aim of ruining the hated white race by the necessarily-resulting bastardization.”
Once the Nazi regime came to power, Afro-Germans were marginalized in German society, isolated socially and economically, and not allowed to attend university. Racial discrimination prohibited them from seeking most jobs. By the end of 1937, the Gestapo had secretly rounded up and forcibly sterilized many Afro-Germans. Some were subjected to medical experiments; others mysteriously “disappeared.”
In addition to being persecuted for their race, Afro-Germans were persecuted for other reasons. For example, Hilarius Gilges was an Afro-German dancer and Communist activist from Düsseldorf, Germany. Nazis murdered him on June 20, 1933, for his politics, as well as his race. Today, Hilarius Gilges Platz in Düsseldorf memorializes Gilges as a victim of Nazi terror.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/ ... -holocaust
This was not based on some concept of the inferiority of other races...it was based on the intrinsic benefits of racial purity.
Which is actually perfectly sound scientifically. A purebred hyman...just like a purebred horse or dog...is fine tuned with certain particular talents. A pit bull is better at pit fighting than a greyhound...a greyhound runs faster than a bit bull...a mix is not terribly good at either.
That is thr concept of racial purity and there is no 'supremacy' involved. Indeed the idea that whites are somehow superior is far more of an anglo concept than a german one.
I suppose that I you consider the idea of purebreds to be racist then you could call the naxis racist. But it still was drastically different from what people commonly mean by racism.