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Alfred Rosenberg declared that the Armenians were Aryans, and thus they were immediately subject to conscription. In late 1942, the pro-Nazi Armenian National Council was granted official recognition by Rosenberg, and they published a weekly journal titled Armenién. The purpose of this was to prove to the Nazis that the Armenians were Aryans.
The definition of Aryan remained in constant flux to such an extent that the Nazis questioned whether European ethnic groups such as Finns or Hungarians were to be classified as Aryans. [24] Hungarians were classified as tribally alien but not necessarily blood alien, in 1934 the Nazis published a pamphlet which declared Magyars (which it did ...
"Herzmansky is purely Aryan again!" – The Herzmansky department store in Vienna was confiscated after the Anschluss.. Aryanization (German: Arisierung) was the Nazi term for the seizure of property from Jews and its transfer to non-Jews, and the forced expulsion of Jews from economic life in Nazi Germany, Axis-aligned states, and their occupied territories.
The Aryan master race conceived by Adolf Hitler and the other Nazis graded humans on a scale of pure Aryans to non-Aryans (who were viewed as subhumans). [10] At the top of the scale of pure Aryans were Nordic-type Germans and other Nordic-Aryan Germanic and Northern European peoples, including the Dutch, Scandinavians, and the English. [10]
Conversely, non-Aryans were legally discriminated against, including Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mostly Slovaks, Czechs, Poles, and Russians). [14] [15] Jews, who were regarded as the arch enemy of the "Aryan race" in a "racial struggle for existence", [16] were especially targeted by the Nazi Party, culminating in the Holocaust. [14]
For one, there were a series of films produced by Lothar Zotz with titles like Threatened by the Steam Plough, Germany's Bronze Age, The Flames of Prehistory, and On the Trail of the Eastern Germans, all of which delved further into the supposed prehistory of the German peoples. These films used the appeal of myths, the glory of the ancient ...
East and West Germany were admitted to the United Nations (UN). 1974: 16 May: Helmut Schmidt of the SPD was elected chancellor of West Germany. 7 July: 1974 FIFA World Cup Final: West Germany beat the Netherlands national team in the final match of the FIFA World Cup in Munich, in West Germany. 1982
Map of the foreign stations of the Imperial German Navy around the world in 1901-1914 (with its areas of operations). Nazi Germany wanted the restoration of that global system, so colonial policy was a pragmatic necessity in the New Order.