Aryanism

…a new dogma of “Aryanism” that was to expand and become the foundation for Nazi race theories in the 20th century.

” Believers in Aryanism came to regard the Nordic and Germanic peoples as the purest members of the “race.” That notion, which had been repudiated by anthropologists by the second quarter of the 20th century, was seized upon by Adolf Hitler and the Nazis and was made the…