2020-03-04

UnterMensch UnderStand?


Untermensch (German pronunciation: [ˈʔʊntɐˌmɛnʃ]undermansub-mansubhuman; plural: Untermenschen) is a term that became infamous when the Nazis used it to describe non-Aryan "inferior people" often referred to as "the masses from the East".

Although usually incorrectly considered to have been coined by the Nazis, the term "under man" was first used by American author and Ku Klux Klan member Lothrop Stoddard in the title of his 1922 book The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man.[8] Stoddard uses the term for those he considers unable to function in civilisation, which he generally (but not entirely) attributes to race. It was later adopted by the Nazis from that book's German version Der Kulturumsturz: Die Drohung des Untermenschen (1925).[9]

The leading Nazi attributing the concept of the East-European "under man" to Stoddard is Alfred Rosenberg* 
who, referring to Russian communists, wrote in his Der Mythus des 20. Jahrhunderts (1930) that "this is the kind of human being that Lothrop Stoddard has called the 'under man.'" ["...den Lothrop Stoddard als 'Untermenschen' bezeichnete."][10] Quoting Stoddard: "The Under-Man – the man who measures under the standards of capacity and adaptability imposed by the social order in which he lives".
The attitude underlying the concept of "untermensch" existed before the word was first used in that sense in 1922. This propaganda poster from World War I depicts the fist of Austria-Hungary crushing its subhuman enemy, a chimpanzee-faced Serb wearing Ottoman slippers and carrying the assassin's dagger.

Keista ar nekeista, bet tie, 
kurie dabar sako „UnderStand?", 1999-taisiais bombardavo vėlgi - Serbiją... 

* Landsberg Und Hitler.

Rasit čia Alfred'ą Rosenberg'ą...

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