The subhuman

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Der Untermensch is a document from the SS main office at the Reichsführer SS from 1942 with numerous editions up to 1943.

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The book contains various text contributions as well as numerous photographs of Jews and members of other Eastern peoples in grossly distorted form.

The authors and photographers Friedrich Franz Bauer , Georg Ebert , Helga Glassner , Max Göllner , Erna Hehmke , Walter Hege , Heinrich Hoffmann , Lieselotte Kattwinkel , Erna Lendvai-Dircksen , Hans Retzlaff , Risch-Lau , Charlotte Rohrbach , Hans Saebens , Jutta were involved Selle , Ilse Steinhoff , Hans Tschira , Paula Wehr and Anna Winterer .

The writing was allegedly controversial even among the National Socialists and was withdrawn after a short time.

Characterization of the "subhuman"

The anti-Semitic text begins with an assertion by Heinrich Himmler from 1935: “As long as there are people on earth, the struggle between humans and subhumans will be the historical rule, this struggle against the peoples led by the Jews is part of the natural course of life, ... like the fight of the plague bacillus against the healthy body. "

The subhuman looks like a human being, but is a “terrible creature”, “spiritually, emotionally deeper than any animal.” He is characterized as a being with “will to destroy”, “primitive desire” and “meanness”, is of “ Hatred “against the creator of culture.

Against the background of this dualistic racial ideology , the text turns against the idea of equality . Accordingly, man has created culture, family, people and state over the centuries and thereby became good, great and “God's neighbor”. In contrast, the “subhuman” lived parallel to this in chaos with his own kind as a thief, blasphemer, murderer, as a beast under the leadership of the “ eternal Jew ” who “brought horror over humanity”. By characterizing the Jewish festival of Purim as the “glorification” of “ mass murder ”, the “cruel extermination” of the “ Aryan ” Persians is stated.

Terminology

Some of the terminology used in the text existed in Germany before the time of National Socialism . In Der Untermensch it says: “The hatred of subhumans against bright figures, the bearers of light, is eternal. Ever threatened from the deserts of the downfall of the West . "For millennia'll Europe by Huns hordes u. like fire and death, rape and murder, haunted, the apocalypse looming. The embodiment of this “will to annihilate” is Jewish Bolshevism , which is as old as the Jew himself. The people get into “ slavery ” while their leaders are slaughtered. The people degenerate through “blood mixes” .

See also

literature

  • Walther Hofer (Ed.): From the SS main office. Doc. 157b. Der Untermensch (1957, p. 280), Fischer TB, 2004, ISBN 3-596-26084-1 or ISBN 3-436-00183-X (shorter version. Here the exact source from the Nuremberg Trials ). Frequent reprints. - A longer version (including “Bolshevism”) can be found in the political textbook: Dieckerhoff u. a. Fields of study in politics . Stam, Cologne 1994, p. 313 f. ISBN 3-8237-0374-9 with the source “ Institute for Contemporary History ” Munich, archive no. 1720/55
  • Manfred Overesch u. a .: The Third Reich. Data-images-documents. - Writing of the SS main office at the Reichsführer SS on "Untermenschentum" (1935) The digital library no. 49. Directmedia Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89853-149-X (document no. 101).

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