Master race
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| + | The '''master race''' ([[German language|German]]: ''die Herrenrasse, {{Audio|De-herrenvolk.ogg|das Herrenvolk}})'' was a concept in [[Nazism|Nazi]] [[ideology]], which holds that the [[Aryan Race|Aryan Race]]s (including the [[Nordic race|Nordic]] peoples), one of the branches of what in the late 19th and early 20th century was called the [[Aryan race]], represent an ideal and "pure [[Race (classification of human beings)|race]]". It derives from [[19th century]] [[racial theory]], which posited a [[hierarchy]] of races placing [[Australian aborigines|Aboriginal Australians]] and "[[Negroid|African savages]]" at the bottom of the hierarchy while Northern Europeans (Germans, Swedes, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, English and Dutch) at the top, and Southern Europeans (Spanish, French, Italian, and Portugese) somewhere in the middle. | ||
| - | '''Vril''' is a ''substance'' described in [[Edward Bulwer-Lytton]]'s 1871 novel '''''The Coming Race''''', which was later reprinted as '''''Vril: The Power of the Coming Race'''''. The novel is an early example of [[science fiction]]. However, many early readers believed that its account of a superior [[subterranean]] [[master race]] and the energy-form called "Vril" was accurate, to the extent that some [[theosophy|theosophists]] accepted the book as truth. Furthermore, since 1960 there has been a [[conspiracy theory]] about a [[Secret society|secret]] '''Vril Society'''. | ||
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The master race (German: die Herrenrasse, Template:Audio) was a concept in Nazi ideology, which holds that the Aryan Races (including the Nordic peoples), one of the branches of what in the late 19th and early 20th century was called the Aryan race, represent an ideal and "pure race". It derives from 19th century racial theory, which posited a hierarchy of races placing Aboriginal Australians and "African savages" at the bottom of the hierarchy while Northern Europeans (Germans, Swedes, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, English and Dutch) at the top, and Southern Europeans (Spanish, French, Italian, and Portugese) somewhere in the middle.
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