A thread about the Reich's ultimate racial goals. Current events are fine and dandy. But I do not think we, who have rejected mere civic solutions and chosen to inherit Adolf Hitler's great dream, should lose sight of that dream. And, if possible, we should all make sure we agree on what he meant.
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As far as I understand it, Hitler's intention, in short, was to consolidate the western branch of the Aryan race: what we might today call the descendants of the proto-Indo-European people in Europe. As the PIE hypothesis goes, the eastern branch settled Persia, the Middle East, and the Indus Valley, giving rise to Persian, Sanskrit and the Vedas, before fading away; the term "Aryan", from the Sanskrit "arya" (and ultimately the PIE *aryas, meaning noble), was used before the PIE language had been reconstructed. Hitler did not believe that the Aryan race existed in the 20th century, but had been succeeded by a number of child tribes of Aryan heritage which were more or less intermixed with other races throughout Europe. In India and the Middle East, of course, the Aryan race had been transformed entirely through racial mixing with the local Arabic and Dravidic people, either causing or because of the collapse of their civilizations.
The NSDAP and SS believed that the Nordic people were the closest to the original Aryans of 4000 BC, both because of their relative isolation from other races, and because they believed that the Aryan Urheimat, or ancestral home, was in the northern Urals, and that the Aryans as a whole shifted West as Turkic, Slavic and Altaic groups moved in from the East; Scandinavia being closest. The current 2017 hypothesis is that the Urheimat was in Crimea, with the Yamana culture*; but there is also evidence that it could be Anatolia, the Baltic states, or the Urals, the latter especially because of how close the Uralic langauges are to the reconstructed PIE. This would be the "Hyperborea" the Greeks referenced.
At any rate, despite Nordic qualities, Hitler decided that, in practice, the Germanic people were the best-suited to unite and lead the Aryans, because of their greater numbers, military might and the massive industrial base of the Germanic countries. The German people would form the "nucleus" of a new Reich, around which the Germanic (distinct from German) people would rally, and ultimately, Aryans everywhere.
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*this is the Kurgan hypothesis; while kosher, it is by no means firm, and does not address the issue that reconstructed PIE has no word for "sea", curious for a people supposedly living on a peninsula.