The Archive · 1941

This Aryan Race

Of all the nonsense that has come out of Germany since the Nazis with Hitler at their head gained control the classification of Germans as a pure Aryan race of superman is the most fantastic. If the propounders of this absurd theory knew anything about the sciences of ethnology and anthropology, which deal with man, his distribution, racial and physical characteristics, languages and cultures, they would know that the term "Aryan," properly speaking, refers to languages and not to races. There is no such thing as an Aryan race from the point of view of blood relationship and descent, Various groups or communities of men have been called Aryan, not because they were or are physically similar or closely related, but because they spoke or speak one of a group of related languages which have been given the name Aryan, and which have sprung from a language that developed in the region of present day Persia or Iran. This language was the forerunner of a great many modern languages, including those spoken in India, Arabia, Tibet and many other parís of Asia, and the whole of Europe and other parts of the world settled by Europeans, often by peóples who are not closely related. Such peoples should no be referred to as 4m but as Ty Thus the bland Norwegian and the black-haired dark-skinned Hindu both have an Aryan tongue, but racially are very distinct. Physicall; and racially the present-day. Germans, particularly the Prussians, although bland in colouring, are more closely related to the Mongols thea they are to the other bland peoples of Europe, for they have a very strong strain of Mongol blood in their veins. Part of their ancestors were the latest of the so-called Nordics to arrive in Europe from Asia in advance of the terrible and blood thirsty Huns, who later overwhelmed the areas where they had settled, such as present-day Prussia, Austria and other countries in Easter and Central Europe, mixing with the Nordics that remained behind instead of moving further westward.

Later the Huns were driven out of these areas into that occupied by present day Hungary, where they remained and became the ancestors of the Magyars. But, in the areas that the Huns had conquered, they left their indelible mark in the form of an admixture of their blood in the inhabitants, and, even today, such peoples as the Prussians, with their stockily-built bodies, broad rather flat faces, short depressed noses, square heads with the typical flat back and straight line from neck to crown, and their straight upstanding bristly hair, to say nothing of their mental attributes, more closely resemble the Mongols than they do the true Nordics of Scandinavia, Holland, Belgium, northern France and the British Isles.

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