According to Nazi ideology, an ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed with athletic features. The term is still tied to Nazi Germany, but its origin lies elsewhere. Like many Germans, Adolf Hitler had ...

The development of the racialist theory of the superiority of the Aryan “master” race is often attributed to Joseph Arthur de Gobineau, a French aristocrat and novelist and “Father of modern Racial ...

Heinrich Heine, Germany’s poet who during his lifetime and after death was declared to be a Jew in spite of his Baptism and was denounced by German Nationalists, was not of Semitic origin, but of ...