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The '''master race''' ({{lang-de|link=no|'''Herrenrasse'''}}) is a [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] concept in [[Nazism|Nazi]] ideology in which the putative "[[Aryan race]]" is deemed the pinnacle of [[Race (classification of human beings)|human racial]] hierarchy.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Bryant|first1=Edwin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-Grpz1tmcSMC|title=The Quest for the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate|last2=Bryant|first2=Edwin Francis|last3=Bryant|first3=Professor of Hinduism Edwin|date=2001-09-06|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-513777-4|language=en}}</ref> Members were referred to as "'''''Herrenmenschen'''''" ("master humans").<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[The Historical Journal]]|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2638127|volume=15|number=2|date=June 1972|pages=331–360|title=World Power Status or World Dominion? A Survey of the Literature on Hitler's 'Plan of World Dominion' (1937-1970)|first=Meir|last=Michaelis|doi=10.1017/S0018246X00002624 |jstor=2638127 |s2cid=162629479 }}</ref>
The Nazi theorist [[Alfred Rosenberg]] believed that the "[[Nordic race]]" was descended from [[Proto-Indo-Europeans]], who he believed had [[Prehistory|pre-historically]] dwelt on the [[North German Plain]] and may have ultimately originated on the lost island of [[Atlantis]].<ref>[[Alfred Rosenberg|Rosenberg, Alfred]], ''[[The Myth of the 20th Century]]''. The term ''Atlantis'' is mentioned two times in the whole book; the term ''Atlantis-hypothesis'' is mentioned just once. Rosenberg (page 24): "It seems to be not completely impossible, that at parts where today the waves of the Atlantic ocean murmur and icebergs move along, once a blossoming land towered in the water, on which a creative race founded a great culture and sent its children as seafarers and warriors into the world; but if this Atlantis-hypothesis proves untenable, we still have to presume a prehistoric Nordic cultural center." Rosenberg (page 26): "The ridiculed hypothesis about a Nordic creative center, which we can call Atlantis – without meaning a sunken island – from where once waves of warriors migrated to all directions as first witnesses of Nordic longing for distant lands to conquer and create, today becomes probable." Original: "''Es erscheint als nicht ganz ausgeschlossen, dass an Stellen, über die heute die Wellen des Atlantischen Ozeans rauschen und riesige Eisgebirge herziehen, einst ein blühendes Festland aus den Fluten ragte, auf dem eine schöpferische Rasse große, weitausgreifende Kultur erzeugte und ihre Kinder als Seefahrer und Krieger hinaussandte in die Welt; aber selbst wenn sich diese Atlantishypothese als nicht haltbar erweisen sollte, wird ein nordisches vorgeschichtliches Kulturzentrum angenommen werden müssen. ... Und deshalb wird die alte verlachte Hypothese heute Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass von einem nordischen Mittelpunkt der Schöpfung, nennen wir ihn, ohne uns auf die Annahme eines versunkenen atlantischen Erdteils festzulegen, die Atlantis, einst Kriegerschwärme strahlenförmig ausgewandert sind als erste Zeugen des immer wieder sich erneut verkörpernden nordischen Fernwehs, um zu erobern, zu gestalten.''"</ref> The [[Nazis]] declared that the [[Aryan race|Aryan]]s were superior to all other races, and believed they were entitled to expand territorially.<ref name="hitler1925">[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler, Adolf]] ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' 1925</ref> The actual policy that was implemented by the Nazis resulted in the [[Aryan certificate]]. This document, which was required by law for all citizens of the Reich, was the "Lesser Aryan certificate" (''Kleiner Ariernachweis'') and could be obtained through an ''[[Ahnenpass]]'', which required the owner to trace their lineage through [[baptism]], birth certificates, or certified proof thereof that all grandparents were of "Aryan descent".
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