Untermensch
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Untermensch (German for under man, sub-man, sub-human; plural: Untermenschen) is a term from Nazi racial ideology used to describe "inferior people", especially "the masses from the East," that is Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, Soviet Bolsheviks, and anyone else who was not an "Aryan" according to the contemporary Nazi race terminology. The German word Mensch literally means person.
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See also
- Aryan certificate
- Eugenics
- Genocides in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe
- The Holocaust in Poland
- Mischling
- Nazi crimes against ethnic Poles
- Nuremberg Laws
- Rassenschande
- Racial hygiene
- Übermensch
- World War II persecution of Serbs
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