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Untermensch
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Untermensch

Untermensch is a term from the Nazi ideology meaning subhuman. Nazis believed that the Germanic people were the master race. They believed that e.g. Jews and to a lesser extent slavic people were subhumans. In Nazi ideology the opposite of untermensch is Übermensch.

The term was borrowed from older 19th century sources.

See also Herrenvolk

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