Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A master race.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others; -- referred to especially in NAZI racial theories.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There was a separation between "Herrenvolk" and natives, based on confusing race theories, while at the same time the government did recognise Eurasians as being legally equal to Europeans.4l But as the economy was concentrated in the hands of a few and the government closely tied-in, the result was a type of of "corporate state" based on a capitalist system of exploitation.
Archive 2004-11-01 2004
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If we have that discrimination it is not because the whites in South Africa have any "Herrenvolk" complex.
Détente in Africa 1976
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The whole ideology of this rule was that of the 'Herrenvolk' and the master race ...
Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2008
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'Herrenvolk', a 'chosen people', 'homo homini lupus', are reigning over slave races, the children of Ham, "les miserables" and "the wretched of the earth".
OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009
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Shoter SLC: According to my team of eugenics specialists, the Kurds are genetic allies of the Herrenvolk.
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A 1946 British report compared Palestine to South Africa: enriched by aid dollars from abroad, the Jews "behaved as a Herrenvolk" in Palestine, "a master race."
Geoffrey Wawro: Blockading Palestine: Lessons from Exodus 1947 2010
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Seriously, only a complete ignoramus goes about retailing the nonsense that the chosen people are similar to a Herrenvolk somehow.
Carried to Orthodoxy 2010
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Herrenvolk, the apartheid fascist regime in South Africa, had used this
OpEdNews - Diary: Venezuela: The Principle of Hope Against Global United States Military Bases 2009
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Prize this Herrenvolk was cast into eternal oblivion.
Venezuela: The Serpentine Road from Bourgeois Revolution to Proletarian Emancipation 2009
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The Herrenvolk, the master race, the chosen people and their ideologues were (and still are) convinced of the following at the end of the 15th century: that we saw the white
Columbus' 'discovery' of America: the greatest hoax of all times? 2009
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