"Master Race" Accusation Contradicted

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”The idea of German superiority, the master race, justified the enslavement and extermination of those deemed inferior.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum -website (https://www.fdrlibrary.org/investigating-the-holocaust)


"Master Race" Accusation Contradicted

(14 min 45 sec)
This video has also some interesting videos and pictures at the end that are not included in this text version.

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Hans Fritzsche (a senior member in the Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda):

DR. FRITZ: You are accused, furthermore, of having spread the doctrine of the "master race." The Prosecution makes this charge indirectly against you. How about that?

FRITZSCHE: I never set up or voiced the theory of the "master race." I even avoided this term. I expressly prohibited this term being used by the German press and the German radio when I was in charge of one or the other. I believe that the term "master race" played a greater role in the anti-National Socialist propaganda than in Germany proper. I do not know who invented this term. To my knowledge it was publicly mentioned only by men like Dr. Ley, for example, men - and I must explain this frankly and expressly - who were not taken seriously by anyone in this connection.

- Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Volume 17 - Thursday, 27 June 1946, Morning Session: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/06-27-46.asp

GENERAL R. A. RUDENKO (Chief Prosecutor for the U.S.S.R.): I should like to begin the cross-examination in determining the role which German propaganda played in the criminal activity of the Hitler Government. Tell me, do you admit that German propaganda disseminated racial theories and introduced into the minds of the German people the ideas of the superiority of the German race - that means, the idea of the "master race"? Do you admit that?

FRITZSCHE: The question touches upon two problems. May I reply to both of them? I admit that German propaganda spread the racial theory, but I deny that German propaganda spread the theory of the "master race."

GEN. RUDENKO: You do not admit it?

FRITZSCHE: No.

- Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Volume 17 - Friday, 28 June 1946, Morning Session: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/06-28-46.asp

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Hermann Goering ("the second most powerful man in Germany" and the original successor of Hitler):

GEN. RUDENKO: Were you in accord with this principle of the master race and education of the German people in the spirit of it, or were you not in accord with it?

GOERING: No, and I have also stated that I have never used that expression either in writing or orally. I definitely acknowledge the differences between races.

GEN. RUDENKO: But do I understand you correctly that you are not in accord with this theory?

GOERING: I have never expressed my agreement with the theory that one race should be considered as a master race, superior to the others, but I have emphasized the difference between races.

GEN. RUDENKO: You can answer this question; it seems, you do not consider it right?

GOERING: I personally do not consider it right.

- Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Volume 9 - Friday, 22 March 1946, Morning Session: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/03-22-46.asp

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Alfred Rosenberg (NS theorist and ideologue):

I have never heard the word "master race" ("Herrenrasse") as often as in this court room. To my knowledge, I did not mention or use it at all in my writings. I leafed through my Writings and Speeches again and did not find this word.

- Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Volume 11 - Monday, 15 April 1946, Morning Session: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/04-15-46.asp

"National Socialism wasn't based on racial prejudice. We just wanted to maintain our own racial and national solidarity. I didn't say that the Jews are inferior. I didn't even maintain that they are a race. I merely saw that the mixture of different cultures didn't work—that is how Roman and Greek civilization went to pieces. The Jews wanted to maintain their identity as a people, and I say more power to them, but so do we. Look how the Jews were forced to be baptized in previous centuries. That is real racial prejudice and an incredible presumptuousness on the part of the Church."

- From 'Nuremberg Diary' by Gustave Gilbert (a psychologist at the main Nuremberg trial)

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Otto Ohlendorf (The Commander of Einsatzgruppe D):

”The office for racial politics [Rassenpolitisches Amt der NSDAP] dealing with such racial problems never represented this [master race] theory.”

- Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Volume 4 (Einsatzgruppen case), p. 281: https://books.google.com/books?id=TmwDYcEYJRoC&pg=PA281

”the Einsatzgruppen and Einsatzkommandos never had the task to eliminate groups of the population because they were racially inferior”

- Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10, Volume 4 (Einsatzgruppen case), p. 252: https://books.google.com/books?id=TmwDYcEYJRoC&pg=PA252

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Fritz Sauckel (NS Politician):

”I have never believed in the superiority of one particular race, but I always held that equality of rights was necessary.”

- From 'The Nuremberg Interviews' by Leon Goldensohn (a psychiatrist at the main Nuremberg trial)

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Sepp Dietrich (SS General):

[Goldensohn:] ”Do you believe in the Nazi philosophy of racism and the master race?”

[Dietrich:] “You can find masters all over the world, not only in Germany, so I don’t believe in it. In all races, you can find good, intelligent folk.”

- From 'The Nuremberg Interviews' by Leon Goldensohn (a psychiatrist at the main Nuremberg trial)

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Arthur Seyss-Inquart (NS Politician):

”I never called the Jews inferior.”

- Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Volume 16 - Tuesday, 11 June 1946, Morning Session: https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/06-11-46.asp

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Joseph Goebbels (Reich Minister of Propaganda):

"subhumans exist in every people as a leavening agent."

- Goebbels in his Speech "Weltgefahr des Bolschewismus" ("World danger of Bolshevism") on 10 September 1936

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Adolf Hitler:

"I am quite free of all racial hatred: It is, in any case, undesirable that one race should mix with other races. Except for a few gratuitous successes, which I am prepared to admit, systematic cross-breeding has never produced good results. Its desire to remain racially pure is a proof of the vitality and good health of a race. Pride in one's own race - and that does not imply contempt for other races - is also a normal and healthy sentiment."

- (13th February 1945) - The Political Testament of Adolf Hitler (Die Bormann Vermerke)

"And this will not lead to an alienation of the peoples, but on the contrary to a true mutual understanding for the first time! But it will also prevent the Jewish people under the mask of a respectable citizen of the world, from inwardly disintegrating all other peoples and thereby trying to dominate them!"

- Hitler's speech in the Reichstag on 30. January 1937

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Leon Degrelle (Belgian Waffen-SS Colonel):

"German racialism has been deliberately distorted. It never was an anti-'other race' racialism. It was a pro-German racialism. It was concerned with making the German race strong and healthy in every way. Hitler was not interested in having millions of degenerates, if it was in his power not to have them. Today one finds rampant alcohol and drug addiction everywhere. Hitler cared that the German families be healthy, cared that they raise healthy children for the renewal of a healthy nation. German racialism meant re-discovering the creative values of their own race, re-discovering their culture. It was a search for excellence, a noble idea. National Socialist racialism was not against the other races, it was for its own race. It aimed at defending and improving its race, and wished that all other races did the same for themselves.

That was demonstrated when the Waffen SS enlarged its ranks to include 60,000 Islamic SS. The Waffen SS respected their way of fife, their customs, and their religious beliefs. Each Islamic SS battalion had an imam, each company had a mullah. It was our common wish that their qualities found their highest expression. This was our racialism. I was present when each of my Islamic comrades received a personal gift from Hitler during the new year. It was a pendant with a small Koran. Hitler was honoring them with this small symbolic gift. He was honoring them with what was the most important aspect of their lives and their history. National Socialist racialism was loyal to the German race and totally respected all other races."


[And on the Jewish race:]

"Hitler had no intention of destroying it. He wanted the Jews to find their own identity in their own environment, but not to the detriment of others. The fight-if we can call it that-of National Socialism against the Jews was purely limited to one objective: that the Jews leave Germany in peace. It was planned to give them a country of their own, outside Germany. Madagascar was contemplated, but the plans were dropped when the United States entered the war. In the meanwhile, Hitler thought of letting the Jews five in their own traditional ghettos. They would have their own organizations, they would run their own affairs and live the way they wanted to live. They had their own police, their own tramways, their own flag, their own factories which, incidentally, were built by the German government. As far as other races were concerned, they were all welcomed in Germany as guests, but not as privileged occupants."

- Epic: The Story of the Waffen SS - (Presented at the IHR's 1982 Revisionist Conference) - http://www.vho.org/GB/Journals/JHR/3/4/ ... 1-468.html

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More:

"Master Race" / Herrenrasse / Herrenvolk - a deliberate mistranslation: viewtopic.php?t=12400
Did Hitler consider Slavs / Eastern Europeans to be "Subhuman" or racially inferior?: viewtopic.php?t=12690
Use of word "Master Race" at First Nuremberg Trial: http://cwporter.com/mran.htm
Master Race Not A Term Used By The National Socialists: http://www.cwporter.com/rauschningnote.htm
Metapedia: Master race: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Master_race
Metapedia: Subhumans: https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Subhumans

[Otium]

Joseph Goebbels (Reich Minister of Propaganda):

"subhumans exist in every people as a leavening agent."

- Goebbels in his Speech "Weltgefahr des Bolschewismus" ("World danger of Bolshevism") on 10 September 1936

This short quotes doesn't really do justice to the point Goebbels was making. In the speech his use of the word "Untermenschentum" is contextualised to define people who are of poor quality, what might today be called a "degenerate":

German:

Der Bolschewismus ist deshalb schon allen anderen politischen Machtgruppen, die sich ihm nicht in schroffster Gegnerschaft entgegenstellen, überlegen, weil er in rücksichtslosester Weise das Untermenschentum, das in jedem Volke als Hefe vorhanden ist, gegen den Staat und seine erhaltenden Ideen mobilisiert. Er ist die Organisation der niedrigsten Instinkte eines Volkes zur Vernichtung aller hochwertigen rassischen Elemente. Er versichert sich meistens einer Machtgruppe, die sich auf eine brutale Minderheit stützt und mit geradezu verbrecherischer Skrupellosigkeit in taktischen Fragen auf ihr großes politisches Ziel, die absolute Erringung der Macht, hinsteuert.

English:

Bolshevism is therefore already superior to all other political power groups which do not oppose it in the most rugged opposition, because it mobilizes in the most ruthless manner the subhumanity which is present in every people as yeast against the state and its sustaining ideas. It is the organization of the lowest instincts of a people for the destruction of all high-quality racial elements. It usually assures itself of a power group based on a brutal minority, and with downright criminal ruthlessness in tactical matters, it moves toward its great political goal, the absolute attainment of power.

Speech by Reichsminister Dr. Joseph Goebbels at the Party Congress in Nuremberg, on September 10, 1936: Paul Meier-Benneckenstein (hrsg.) und Axel Friedrichs (hrsg.), Dokumente der Deutschen Politik, Hochschule für Politik, Band. 4: Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Großmacht 1936, (Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 3. Auflage, 1939), Dok. 5, p. 54-55.

What's clear here, is that "subhuman" is a state of mind that corrupts people, not a biological category. The National Socialists at this time, also had a non-materialist conception of race, a spiritual conception, an "inner race" which Robert Ley alluded to in 1935:

German:

Wer von uns ist reinrassisch? Selbst die, die äußerlich nordisch aussehen, sind vielleicht innerlich Bastarde. Das kann man nicht festlegen. Weil er blond und blauäugig ist, deshalb ist er noch kein reinrassischer Mensch. Er kann sogar innerlich feig und verkommen sein. Dann offenbart sich seine Bastardisierung irgendwo anders. Wir müssen uns vor einem Rassendünkel hüten. Rassendünkel würde genau so verheerend sein wie der Klassenhass.

English:

Who of us is racially pure? Even if somebody’s appearance is Nordic he might be a bastard inside. That somebody is blond and blue-eyed does not mean that he is racially pure. He might even be a degenerate coward. Bastardization shows in different aspects. We have to be on our guard against racial arrogance. Racial arrogance would be as devastating as hatred among classes.

Dr. Robert Ley, Deutschland ist schöner geworden (Berlin: Mehden-Verlag, 1936), Pp. 174.

What Goebbels is saying, is that Bolshevism takes hold by appealing to that degenerate or "subhuman" element of a people (thus a "subhuman" is not its own entity) and corrupts them further, and therefore seeks to destroy the people who are of higher quality among the race. If you're familiar with the work of Dr. Edward Dutton, the term "subhuman" is pretty much the equivalent to the modern "spiteful mutant" used by Dutton. It's a derisive term used to denote people who succumb to an opposing political position, not anything more.

Goebbels in the same speech actually uses the word again:

German:

Wir konnten den Bolschewismus überwinden, weil wir ihm ein besseres Ideal und einen stärkeren Glauben entgegenzustellen hatten, weil sich in uns die Nation gegen das Judentum und das mit ihm verbündete niederrassische Untermenschentum erhob, weil wir eine Weltanschauung vertraten, die im Gegensatz zur bolschewistischen gut, edel und idealistisch ist, weil wir in unserem Kampfe vom Volk selbst ausgingen und nicht, wie die bürgerlichen Parteien, von Besitz und Bildung, weil wir die Kraft unserer Idee vermählten mit der Glaubensstärke und der politischen Inbrunst einer neuerweckten Nation, weil wir einen Führer hatten, der uns den Weg wies aus der dunkelsten Stunde unseres nationalen Lebens zum hellen, klaren und reinen Licht einer neuen Zukunft.

English:

We were able to overcome Bolshevism because we had a better ideal and a stronger faith to oppose it, because in us the nation rose up against Judaism and the lower-race subhumanity allied with it, because we represented a world outlook which, in contrast to the Bolshevist one, is good, noble and idealistic, because in our struggle we proceeded from the people themselves and not, like the bourgeois parties, from property and education, because we married the power of our idea with the strength of faith and the political fervor of a newly awakened nation, because we had a leader (Führer) who showed us the way out of the darkest hour of our national life to the bright, clear and pure light of a new future.

Benneckenstein & Friedrichs, op cit., p. 75.

One must wonder, if the Jews are supposedly "sub-human" why on earth did Goebbels not refer to them as such? But instead refer to members of the German ethnic community as "subhumans" who allied with the Jews by becoming Bolsheviks? Certainly an interesting distinction which lends no credence to the idea that "subhuman" is a racial categorization. The first quote attests to that when Goebbels distinguishes between the "subhumans" existing among all groups. Therefore "subhuman" itself cannot be a group of its own, but merely a descriptive term for those whom adopt a destructive, degenerative worldview like Bolshevism.

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On "Master race" you'll find that many of the original quotations use the term "Herrenvolk" (ie. ruling people, master people) which is - as C.W. Porter thoroughly points out - a mistranslation. In all the examples you see referenced of the alleged word "Herrenvolk", all are in connection with the idea of being a ruler, not being apart of some pre-ordained superior race.

[Black Eagle]

Joseph Goebbels (Reich Minister of Propaganda):

"subhumans exist in every people as a leavening agent."

- Goebbels in his Speech "Weltgefahr des Bolschewismus" ("World danger of Bolshevism") on 10 September 1936

This short quotes doesn't really do justice to the point Goebbels was making. In the speech his use of the word "Untermenschentum" is contextualised to define people who are of poor quality, what might today be called a "degenerate":

German:

Der Bolschewismus ist deshalb schon allen anderen politischen Machtgruppen, die sich ihm nicht in schroffster Gegnerschaft entgegenstellen, überlegen, weil er in rücksichtslosester Weise das Untermenschentum, das in jedem Volke als Hefe vorhanden ist, gegen den Staat und seine erhaltenden Ideen mobilisiert. Er ist die Organisation der niedrigsten Instinkte eines Volkes zur Vernichtung aller hochwertigen rassischen Elemente. Er versichert sich meistens einer Machtgruppe, die sich auf eine brutale Minderheit stützt und mit geradezu verbrecherischer Skrupellosigkeit in taktischen Fragen auf ihr großes politisches Ziel, die absolute Erringung der Macht, hinsteuert.

English:

Bolshevism is therefore already superior to all other political power groups which do not oppose it in the most rugged opposition, because it mobilizes in the most ruthless manner the subhumanity which is present in every people as yeast against the state and its sustaining ideas. It is the organization of the lowest instincts of a people for the destruction of all high-quality racial elements. It usually assures itself of a power group based on a brutal minority, and with downright criminal ruthlessness in tactical matters, it moves toward its great political goal, the absolute attainment of power.

Speech by Reichsminister Dr. Joseph Goebbels at the Party Congress in Nuremberg, on September 10, 1936: Paul Meier-Benneckenstein (hrsg.) und Axel Friedrichs (hrsg.), Dokumente der Deutschen Politik, Hochschule für Politik, Band. 4: Deutschlands Aufstieg zur Großmacht 1936, (Berlin: Junker und Dünnhaupt, 3. Auflage, 1939), Dok. 5, p. 54-55.

What's clear here, is that "subhuman" is a state of mind that corrupts people, not a biological category. The National Socialists at this time, also had a non-materialist conception of race, a spiritual conception, an "inner race" which Robert Ley alluded to in 1935:

German:

Wer von uns ist reinrassisch? Selbst die, die äußerlich nordisch aussehen, sind vielleicht innerlich Bastarde. Das kann man nicht festlegen. Weil er blond und blauäugig ist, deshalb ist er noch kein reinrassischer Mensch. Er kann sogar innerlich feig und verkommen sein. Dann offenbart sich seine Bastardisierung irgendwo anders. Wir müssen uns vor einem Rassendünkel hüten. Rassendünkel würde genau so verheerend sein wie der Klassenhass.

English:

Who of us is racially pure? Even if somebody’s appearance is Nordic he might be a bastard inside. That somebody is blond and blue-eyed does not mean that he is racially pure. He might even be a degenerate coward. Bastardization shows in different aspects. We have to be on our guard against racial arrogance. Racial arrogance would be as devastating as hatred among classes.

Dr. Robert Ley, Deutschland ist schöner geworden (Berlin: Mehden-Verlag, 1936), Pp. 174.

What Goebbels is saying, is that Bolshevism takes hold by appealing to that degenerate or "subhuman" element of a people (thus a "subhuman" is not its own entity) and corrupts them further, and therefore seeks to destroy the people who are of higher quality among the race. If you're familiar with the work of Dr. Edward Dutton, the term "subhuman" is pretty much the equivalent to the modern "spiteful mutant" used by Dutton. It's a derisive term used to denote people who succumb to an opposing political position, not anything more.

Goebbels in the same speech actually uses the word again:

German:

Wir konnten den Bolschewismus überwinden, weil wir ihm ein besseres Ideal und einen stärkeren Glauben entgegenzustellen hatten, weil sich in uns die Nation gegen das Judentum und das mit ihm verbündete niederrassische Untermenschentum erhob, weil wir eine Weltanschauung vertraten, die im Gegensatz zur bolschewistischen gut, edel und idealistisch ist, weil wir in unserem Kampfe vom Volk selbst ausgingen und nicht, wie die bürgerlichen Parteien, von Besitz und Bildung, weil wir die Kraft unserer Idee vermählten mit der Glaubensstärke und der politischen Inbrunst einer neuerweckten Nation, weil wir einen Führer hatten, der uns den Weg wies aus der dunkelsten Stunde unseres nationalen Lebens zum hellen, klaren und reinen Licht einer neuen Zukunft.

English:

We were able to overcome Bolshevism because we had a better ideal and a stronger faith to oppose it, because in us the nation rose up against Judaism and the lower-race subhumanity allied with it, because we represented a world outlook which, in contrast to the Bolshevist one, is good, noble and idealistic, because in our struggle we proceeded from the people themselves and not, like the bourgeois parties, from property and education, because we married the power of our idea with the strength of faith and the political fervor of a newly awakened nation, because we had a leader (Führer) who showed us the way out of the darkest hour of our national life to the bright, clear and pure light of a new future.

Benneckenstein & Friedrichs, op cit., p. 75.

One must wonder, if the Jews are supposedly "sub-human" why on earth did Goebbels not refer to them as such? But instead refer to members of the German ethnic community as "subhumans" who allied with the Jews by becoming Bolsheviks? Certainly an interesting distinction which lends no credence to the idea that "subhuman" is a racial categorization. The first quote attests to that when Goebbels distinguishes between the "subhumans" existing among all groups. Therefore "subhuman" itself cannot be a group of its own, but merely a descriptive term for those whom adopt a destructive, degenerative worldview like Bolshevism.

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On "Master race" you'll find that many of the original quotations use the term "Herrenvolk" (ie. ruling people, master people) which is - as C.W. Porter thoroughly points out - a mistranslation. In all the examples you see referenced of the alleged word "Herrenvolk", all are in connection with the idea of being a ruler, not being apart of some pre-ordained superior race.

I would really appreciate you making a separate topic for the exact reason of explaining that Untermenschen is not an racial term.

[Otium]

I would really appreciate you making a separate topic for the exact reason of explaining that Untermenschen is not an racial term.

Thankfully that isn't necessary, at least I don't think so. I've already addressed it quite extensively in my post here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=12690#p99296

I don't feel anymore needs to be said.

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Thank you for this post Revision. It is very important information.

As we all know, much is made in the post-war literature of the alleged German / Nazi concept of "the Aryan Master Race".

The simple interpretation of these claims, vis the principle of inversion proclaimed by the Sabbatean / Frankist Jews, shows that, as per usual, it is a very effective tactic to accuse your enemy of that which you are guilty of. After all, there can only ever be one master race ...

I have read quite a bit on the origins of the occult inputs to the DAP, from the likes of occultist Sebottendorff, the Thule Society and from the Rosicrucian, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and his concept of Vril.

So far I have understood that all of these inputs, unsurprisingly originated with British Freemasons, specifically the Quatuor Coronati lodge founded by Charles Warren after his return from his archaeological efforts with Royal consorts in the Holy Land. It has been argued that Warren had been working under the same initiative proclaimed by Lord Palmerston in his 1840 letter to Lord Ponsonby, that "it was time for the Jews to return to Palestine."

Warren's lodge subsequently issued the Masonic Warrant to the Russian occultist, Helena Blavatsky, founder of the Theosophical Society, who then spread the ancient Aryan idea among her German counterparts.

As with all occult traditions it seems, their foundations are always predicated on the idea of ancient Gods and Blavatsky's Theosophy was no different. In her book The Secret Doctrine, she espoused the idea of human evolution in terms of root races. Long story short, according to Blavatsky, when the lost city of Atlantis sank and the race of giant Atlanteans were lost, their surviving priesthood made it all the way to the Himalayas to the kingdom of Shambhala in Tibet. Their ancient knowledge was then passed on to the new race of Aryans who ended up among the Anglo-Saxons.

This then places SS Officer, Ernst Schafer's 1938 expedition to Tibet in historical, occult context under the umbrella of the SS Ahnenerbe.

Reading up on all of this is a fascinating journey which I have not yet completed. There are plenty of resources on the subject and it makes for very interesting reading.

How much of it is pure invention for the purposes of creating and installing a mythos in Britain's enemy is open to interpretation.



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Here is Wilhelm Frick, the interior minister of the third reich 1933-1943, on the subject:

Q. When did the idea of the master race, as distinguished from the inferior race, come into the Party thinking?

A. It was not a matter of superiority, but merely a question of retaining the peculiar quality of the race, for it is an absolutely scientific truth that the product of a mixed marriage has certain defects that show themselves in reproduction and so forth, and it is for the self-protection of the people that you have to think of the purity of the race. That sort of thing is perfectly justified; just as any other nation, let’s say, the Japanese, could go ahead and try to retain the purity of the Japanese race. In fact, the Jews themselves have always adhered to a very elaborate race doctrine and provided very severe punishment for mixed marriage, and also, as I am informed, the American government in its immigration laws adheres to the idea of a very definite quota of people from Nordic countries that can be admitted at one time. At any rate, it seems that the American government adheres to a sort of race conception also.

Overy, R. J. (2001). Interrogations: The Nazi elite in Allied hands, 1945. (New York: Viking) p. 504

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