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Untermensch (German for under man, sub-man, sub-human; plural: Untermenschen) is a term that became infamous when the Nazi racial ideology used it to describe inferior people, especially the masses from the East, that is Gypsies, Jews, and Slavic peoples including Belarusians, Poles, Russians and Ukrainians, although many of the Slavs were accepted as Aryans. The Nazis maintained that for example the Northern Russians had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye colour and were racially fit to be a part of the master race. The Nazis also considered some percentages of young Slavs like Russians, Croatians, Ukrainians, Czechs and Slovaks, with the initial inclusion of Poles and Belarusians to be the sufficient subjects for Germanisation. However, it was believed that for instance the Polish people... Read More »
