The Reich Race and Settlement Head Office in 1942 distributed a pamphlet "Untermensch" of which 3,860,995 copies were printed. The pamphlet states the following:
"The sub-human, that biologically seemingly complete similar creation of nature with hands, feet and a kind of brain, with eyes and a mouth, is nevertheless a completely different, dreadful creature. He is only a rough copy of a human being, with human-like facial traits but nonetheless morally and mentally lower than any animal. Within this creature there is a fearful chaos of wild, uninhibited passions, nameless destructiveness, the most primitive desires, the nakedest vulgarity. Sub-human, otherwise nothing. For all that bear a human face are not equal. Woe to him who forgets it. "
And yet for all their efforts Nazi scientists were unable to identify the "Untermensch" in a definitive manner that was not based on birth records -- put otherwise there was no clear biological distinction between Untermenschen and Aryans. That is because the difference wasn't there -- like calling a woman a witch, defining a Central European a sub-human was mere superstition.
James Morton
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It was more than superstition, it was good politics. Even today the German people use the untermensche, as I pointed out in an earlier post. I don't say John Demanjuk is innocent, or even a decent human being, but how like the Germans to use an untermensch to "teach" their children about the atrocities that the ARYANS committed against humanity.
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