Adolf Hitler cherished the concept of a 'superior' Nordic race
Posted on 06/13/2008 9:38:51 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
The theory of Scandinavian racial purity cherished by Hitler and the Nazis has been rubbished by new scientific research.
The study found that bodies from 2000-year-old burial sites in eastern Denmark contained "as much genetic variation in their remains as one would expect to find in individuals of the present day".
The findings, in an analysis by the University of Copenhagen which has just been published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, explodes the Nazis' much cherished concept of a 'superior' Nordic race.
Adolf Hitler cherished the concept of a 'superior' Nordic race
Hitler used pseudo-scientific research to back up claims that northern Europeans could form a Master Race which would lead mankind, and even set up a breeding program between Germans and Norwegians to foster it.
The racist theory, which placed the Master Race at the top of mankind's hierarchy and Jews at the bottom, played a central role in the Holocaust.
But according to the new research, the "concept of a single Scandinavian genetic type, a Scandinavian race that wandered to Denmark, settled there, and otherwise lived in complete isolation from the rest of the world, is a fallacy".
Far from being isolated and 'genetically pure', the study on the burial sites found that Danes mixed with peoples from across the globe.
"It becomes clear that the Danes must have been in contact with other peoples," said scientist Linea Melchior, who analysed DNA from the Bøgebjerggård and Skovgaarde sites.
"One of the Danish burial grounds, which dates back to the iron age also contained the remains of a man who appears to have been of Arabian origin," she added.
Research at another early Danish burial site has unearthed a corpse of Siberian origin.
Both that body and the 'Arabian' body discovered by Linea Melchior were buried in identical fashion to 'locals', showing researchers say "that people from distant parts of the world could be and were absorbed in Danish communities".
OKayyyy.... Are they saying people from the North are still superior, though? I’m confused.
I think the "researchers" are really libs trying to defend immigration of Muslims and other aliens into Denmark, and degrading Danish nationalism by associating it with Hitler.
“Hitler used pseudo-scientific research”
Algore is still doing that.
Leftists, communists and Marxists are clearly the superior race. I hear it everyday from the media and the democrats.
As the distinguished biologist E.O. Wilson noted on the BBC, there is a difference between environmental science and environmentalism. He approved of the former and disapproved of the latter. So do I. There are climatic changes caused by human activity as well as solar changes, and it is good to conserve energy, but the environmentalists want to change my behavior to suit them. They never have learned of self-interest as a motivator.
Genetics bears the same relation to the Aryan myth as environmental science does to environmentalism.
Listen Up People!
Hitler said what ever it took to get the vote.
He was anti gay, anti jew, anti communist only when it allowed him to get over that next hurdle
He was the ultimate flip flopper.
Sound familiar?
Probably true and if he was not gay, it is certain that he surrounded himself with gays.
No more, please! Finding this was hard enough!
:^)
There was a little satirical jab at the Nazis that went something like the ideal Nazi was tall like Goebbels, slim like Goering, and blond like Hitler. In short the Nazis, especially their leaders, fell far short of the supposed Aryan, physical ideal.
A historic technicality is that Hitler never said the Nordics were pure. He just said they retained more of their Aryan blood than anyone else.
“There was a little satirical jab at the Nazis that went something like the ideal Nazi was tall like Goebbels, slim like Goering, and blond like Hitler. In short the Nazis, especially their leaders, fell far short of the supposed Aryan, physical ideal.”
Seriously, could Hitler have had self hatred issues?
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The word Aryan has its roots in the Sanskrit word “Arya” (pure). It is a word that has great spiritual meaning to Hindus, Parsees, and some Buddhists.
I read that he had very piercing blue eyes.
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