Talk:Untermensch/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

definition out of a 3rd Reich encyclopedia

I already posted this in the discussion about the Aryans, but I think it is useful information for this discussion, too.

Here's a definition contained in an encyclopedia produced in the Third Reich – the “Volks-Brockhaus” from 1935: it says

Aryans: … members of those races that have lived in Europe for a long time (Nordic, Falish, Dinaric, Mediterranean, Alpine, East Baltic) especially in contrast to the Semitic races. Only Aryans can hold public office and serve in the military and labor service.

I'm not sure about the translation - it originally said: nordisch, fälisch, dinarisch, westisch, ostisch, ostbaltisch in contrast to vorderasiatisch, orientalisch.

So I think "Sieger" is making some good points here. As far I as remember Otto Skorzeny was of Polish descent - and he was a member of "the elite of the elite" - namely the Leibstandarte AH in 1940 when the Nazis thought they would win the war. It does not seem very probable to admit a "untermensch" in this unit.

You see there are not only the old racial myths, but also the modern myths about old racial myths ;) --80.131.255.235 18 April 2006

A bug

"During the Warsaw Uprising, Himmler ordered the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto because according to him it allowed the "living space" of 500,000 subhumans."

Warsaw Ghetto was already destructed in 1943 (Warsaw Ghetto Uprsing), long before Warsaw Uprising (1944).

There were two uprisings in Warsaw during WW2. The first in 1943 and the second in 1944. --2A02:A311:4041:B300:F880:BC57:47C8:1B5 (talk) 08:35, 2 May 2022 (UTC)

So, it should be "During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising", right? --Hob Gadling (talk) 08:47, 2 May 2022 (UTC)