Was Hitler a White Supremacist?

[ladislav]

Many people in the US erroneously think that Hitler was a white supremacist.

He wasn’t, though. He was an Aryan supremacist.

White supremacism is an American concept. It developed in the Americas. The most well known one was the US variety. It basically divided humans into whites and non- whites. But who were the whites? Initially, the original British and also Dutch settlers were the whites. Everybody else was non-white. Even the Germans andthe Irish were non-white. Then, more and more ethnicities were admitted into the white category.

Then, you have similar teachings in Latin America although not as strong. There, the whites are the Spaniards and their descendants, and, of course, other Europeans. Arabs and Jews are white there, also. Spaniards mixed with some Indians are also whites there. In the US, though, they become “Hispanics”.

In the Arab world, Semitic looking Arabs are white, and dark Africans are black. Many such whites there would be seen as blacks in the USA, but it’s not the USA there, and it will not happen - unless they move to the US. Which most do not.

Now, in case of Hitler, he built his philosophy on the existing, old-time local ethnic hierarchies, and “the Whites” was not one of the strata in it. It is not the Americas.

In many parts of Europe, the Germanic peoples always felt they were superior to Slavs and South Europeans. So, Hitler developed the pecking order even further creating the concept of the Aryan race. ( not white race, again; it is not America there)

But who would be included in it? Well, the Germans, of course, and their Nordic/Germanic cousins such as the Dutch, the Norwegians and the Swedes. Who would be excluded? Well, of course those whom Germans considered their most immediate enemies: the Slavs and the Jews and the Gypsies. They always had grudges against these three groups - which is basically a tradition in the European tribalism.

Africans/blacks were not a traditional local population and were not exactly included into the hyerarchy as immediate enemies. They were dealt with as a separate category.

Because Hitler was an Aryan supremacist, he included Northern Indians and then Iranians into the club. However, in the US, E. Indians were “non-white” and were, as Asians, denied citizenship. The fact that they were Aryans did not matter in the USA.

Because Europe is rather small, and Germany is also relatively small, Hitler had to have allies, so he began adding more peoples into his “Aryan club”. In went the Japanese, the Italians, the Arabs ( yes, all of them), the Armenians, and a bunch of other ethnicities who were not Jews or Slavs. But even some Slavs such as some Czechs and Croatians were made an exception of.

Thus, his Aryans now were a rather motley crew of multicultural ethnicities and a variety of looks many of whom were darker than most Jews. It was also ironic because Slavs had even more blonds than many of his “ Aryans”, but they were still the enemy. And the Arabs who were even more mongrel than the Jews were now Aryan. Gypsies who were N. Indians were also non-Aryans. Go figure! The man was totally illogical.

So, as you can see, the Nazi’s Aryans and the American racists’ “ whites” were kind of similar - by a very long stretch- but not the same.

An Aryan supremacist may share many racial views with an American white supremacist but not vice-versa. If you tell an American racist that the Japanese, the Arabs, the Indians and the Armenians should be included at his next “party meeting”, he will go ballistic. And if you tell him that Poles are to be destroyed, he will be non-plussed. Why? Are they not white?

So, those who say that Hitler was a white supremacist are mainly Americans who have no experience with how people are classified in Europe, and who project America upon those countries on the other side of the world.

Hitler may not understand what “ Caucasian American” means, either. Caucasians are Turkic-looking, dark -looking people such as Armenians and Georgians. Like Stalin. “ Caucasian-American” means something totally different in the USA, though.

So, no, technically Hitler was not a white supremacist. That is an American movement.

[Italianman]

Oh okay