THE MYTH OF THE BLOOD © Copyright Peter Crawford 2012 Today a new faith is stirring: the myth of blood, the faith that along with blood we are defending the divine nature of man as a whole. Alfred Rosenberg The real message of Parsifal is pure, noble blood, in whose protection and glorification the brotherhood of the initiated have come together. Adolf Hitler The primacy of the blood - which could also be interpreted as race - was essential to the ideology of National Socialism. Völkisch philosophy developed several theories concerning races. They claimed to be able to scientifically measure a strict hierarchy of human race; - the master race was said to be the most pure stock of the Aryan race, which was narrowly defined as being identical with the Nordic race, followed by other sub-races of the Aryan race. Nordicism, also Nordic theory, is an ideology of racial supremacy that claims that a Nordic race, within the greater Caucasian race, constituted a master race. This ideology was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in some Central and Northern European countries as well as in North America. By the early twentieth century the concept of a masterly Nordic race had become so familiar that the British psychologist William McDougall, writing in 1920, could say with confidence: Among all the disputes and uncertainties of the ethnographers about the races of Europe, one fact stands out clearly—namely, that we can distinguish a race of northerly distribution and origin, characterized physically by fair colour of hair and skin and eyes, by tall stature and dolichocephaly (i.e. long shape of head), and mentally by great independence of character, individual initiative, and tenacity of will. Many names have been used to denote this type, ... . It is also called the Nordic type. Nordicists stated that Nordics had formed upper tiers of ancient civilizations, even in the Mediterranean civilizations of antiquity, which had declined once this dominant race had been assimilated. In Germany Nordicism was known under the term Nordischer Gedanke (Nordic thought). This phrase was coined by the German eugenicists Erwin Baur, Eugen Fischer and Fritz Lenz. It appeared in their 1921 work Human Heredity, which dealt with the innate superiority of the Nordic race. Adapting the arguments of Schopenhauer and others to Darwinian theory, they argued that the qualities of initiative and will-power identified by earlier writers had arisen from natural selection, because of the tough landscape in which Nordic peoples evolved. This had ensured that weaker individuals had not survived. This argument was derived from earlier eugenicist and Social Darwinist ideas. According to the authors, the Nordic race arose in the ice age, from, quite a small group which, under stress of rapidly changing conditions (climate, beasts of the chase) was exposed to exceptionally rigorous selection and was persistently inbred, thus acquiring the peculiar characteristics which persist today as the exclusive heritage of the Nordic race....Philological, archaeological and anthropological researches combine to indicate that the primal home of the Indo-Germanic [i.e Aryan] languages must have been in Northern Europe. By this time, Germany was well-accustomed to theories of race and racial superiority due to the long presence of the Völkish movement, the philosophy that Germans constituted a unique people, or volk, linked by common blood. While Volkism was popular mainly among Germanys lower classes and was more a romanticized version of ethnic nationalism, Nordicism attracted German anthropologists and eugenicists. Hans F. K. Günther, one of Fischers students, first defined Nordic thought in his programmatic book Der Nordische Gedanke unter den Deutschen. He became the most influential German in this field. His Short Ethnology of the German People (1929) was very widely circulated. At the bottom of this hierarchy were parasitic races (of non-Aryan origin) or Untermenschen (sub-humans), which were perceived to be dangerous to society. The term Untermensch was applied to the Slavs, including Russians, Serbs and ethnic Poles. Slavs were viewed as an inferior group, who were fit for enslavement, expulsion. Although some exceptions were made for some Slavs that were said not to belong to Jewish Bolshevism and were deemed fit enough to be Germanized. Lowest of all in the Völkisch racial policy were Gypsies and Jews. With the rise of National Socialism, Nordic theory became the norm within German culture. In some cases the Nordic concept became an almost abstract ideal rather than a mere racial category. In 1942 Hitler stated in private, I shall have no peace of mind until I have planted a seed of Nordic blood wherever the population stand in need of regeneration. If at the time of the migrations, while the great racial currents were exercising their influence, our people received so varied a share of attributes, these latter blossomed to their full value only because of the presence of the Nordic racial nucleus. Hitler and Himmler planned to use the SS as the basis for the racial regeneration of Europe following the final victory of the Third Reich. The SS was to be a racial elite chosen on the basis of pure Nordic qualities. Addressing officers of the SS-Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Himmler stated: The ultimate aim for those 11 years during which I have been the Reichsfuehrer SS has been invariably the same: to create an order of good blood, which is able to serve Germany; which unfailingly and without sparing itself can be made use of because the greatest losses can do no harm to the vitality of this order, the vitality of these men, because they will always be replaced; to create an order which will spread the idea of Nordic blood so far that we will attract all Nordic blood in the world, take away the blood from our adversaries, absorb it so that never again, looking at it from the viewpoint of grand policy, Nordic blood, in great quantities and to an extent worth mentioning, will fight against us. The Third Reich developed an elaborate system of propaganda to diffuse these theories. Hitler-Jugend Trompeter Hitler-Jugend Swimming Team Nazi architecture, for example, was used to create the new order and improve the Aryan race. Sports were also seen by the Nazis as a way to regenerate the race. The Hitler Youth, (see below) founded in 1922, had among its basic motivations the training of future Aryan supermen and future soldiers who would faithfully fight for the Third Reich. Cinema was also used to promote racist theories, under the direction of Joseph Goebbels Propagandaministerium. Alfred Rosenberg - one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi party and editor of the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter, as well as.a long time associate of Dietrich Eckart, Hitlers mentor, made the concept of blood central to his monumental work Der Mythus des Zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts - (The Myth of the Twentieth Century). It was the most influential Nazi text after Hitlers Mein Kampf. The titular myth is the myth of blood, which under the sign of the swastika unchains the racial world-revolution. It is the awakening of the race soul, which after long sleep victoriously ends the race chaos.
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