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  • noun Nazism A master race.

Etymologies

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From German Herrenvolk

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Examples

  • South African Communist Party national chairman Joe Slovo suggested the CP's separate Afrikaner state could be equated with the "herrenvolk" concept of Nazi Germany.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • It lumped all whites together worker and employer, liberal and racist, communist and capitalist - under the 'herrenvolk' label.

    Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 23 Ray Esther 1969

  • As another footnote we should, of course, zero in on the fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the "herrenvolk" concept that lies at the heart of the transformation of the idea of Israel from being a nation-state to being a "node-state."

    Israel Palestine Blogs 2009

  • Technical point, but a herrenvolk democracy is still a democracy.

    Matthew Yglesias » Ehud Barak: Peace or Apartheid 2010

  • Not only will it harm their democratic culture, but it will also reduce the rich and complex meaning of Judaism and Jewish identity into a cramped, Boer-style herrenvolk provincialism.

    Matthew Yglesias » A Back and Forth on Israel 2009

  • The President was in fine voice yesterday, and his soaring words put steel back in the spine of our wavering herrenvolk!

    Think Progress » The Gorelick Myth 2005

  • The day should not be approached with an attitude of "herrenvolk superiority", he said, but in a spirit of humble gratitude for

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2002

  • If we reject the herrenvolk idea [the idea of a pure, unadulterated race] and the principle that the white man cannot remain baas, if the franchise is to be extended to the non-Europeans, and if the non-Europeans are given representation and the vote and the non-Europeans are developed on the same basis as the Europeans, how can the European remain baas

    Editorial 2001

  • If we reject the herrenvolk idea [the idea of a pure, unadulterated race] and the principle that the white man cannot remain baas, if the franchise is to be extended to the non-Europeans, and if the non-Europeans are given representation and the vote and the non-Europeans are developed on the same basis as the Europeans, how can the European remain baas ...

    Non-Racialism in Action Acknowledging the past, Changing the present, Building the future 2001

  • If we reject the herrenvolk idea [the idea of a pure, unadulterated race] and the principle that the white man cannot remain baas, if the franchise is to be extended to the non-Europeans, and if the non-Europeans are given representation and the vote and the non-Europeans are developed on the same basis as the Europeans, how can the European remain baas ...

    Non-Racialism in Action Acknowledging the past, Changing the present, Building the future 2001

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