Master Race Note

The term "Master Race" is of French origin, and was used by Gobineau. I have been unable to find one single authenticated example of use of the term "Master Race" by National Socialists. [In fact, I can't even find it Gobineau; only in the introduction by somebody else -- "race des seigneurs". The plot thickens.]
One of the witnesses at Nuremberg maintained that he had never heard the term until he appeared in court after the war. The famous falsifier and faker, Hermann Rauschning, repeatedly uses the term "Herrenschicht" ("Master Stratum", translated into English as "Master Class") in his famous fake, HITLER SPEAKS, or THE VOICE OF DESTRUCTION, a.k.a. HITLER M'A DIT (written one third in French by a ghost writer hired by the Hungarian Jew "Emery Reeves" and translated into German in Paris for the largest cash advance ever paid for a so-called work of "non-fiction"; the other two thirds were faked by Rauschning under the direction of Reeves). Rauschning met Hitler only 4 times and was never alone with him; one of the episodes in the book is borrowed from a famous short story by Guy de Maupassant, LE HORLA. Rauschning had written another book only the year before, entitled THE REVOLUTION OF NIHILISM, in which he never even claimed to have met Hitler more than a few times. This was all forgotten.

Since the term "Master Class" contradicts the National Socialist ideal of a classless society in which "Work Ennobles", and presumably reflects the Marxist delusion that "fascism is the last phase of bourgeois capitalism", it may be that the phrase "Master Class" was simply lifted from Rauschning and transformed into "Master Race" by American and British newspapers.

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The adjective "jährig" in German, preceded by a number, refers to how old something is, nothing more. It does not refer to how long something will exist in the future. Ein "zehnjähriges Kind" is a ten-year old child. Ein "Funfzigjähriger" is a man fifty years old. It doesn't mean he's going to live fifty years in the future.

The term "tausendjährige Reich" refers to the fact that the First Reich was founded by Charlemagne;



the Second Reich by Bismark;



and the Third Reich by Hitler.




The Reich, or German Empire, was therefore one thousand years old.

Many countries are a thousand years old; the list is a long one (most countries, in fact).

Portugal is 1000 years old and had an Empire until April 25, 1974, but nobody ever accused them of trying to "conquer the world". What's the difference?

Americans keep harping on the term "thousand year Reich", but forget to inquire what the term "Third Reich" even means. Very careless of them.

SUMMARY:

The term "Master Race" is all over the Internet, but no seems able to provide even ONE SINGLE AUTHENTIC QUOTATION using the word, or even any similar word ("Herrenschicht", "Herrenvolk", "Herrenrasse", etc.) used by any National Socialist.

"Tausendjährige Reich" is an authentic term, and was used very frequently (for example, in Hitler's very first speech as Reichschancellor), but it is mistranslated. It means "thousand-year OLD Reich". Surely if the term "Master Race" were authentic, and possessed any real significance at all in Nazi ideology, it should have been used almost as often as "tausendjährige Reich". This is certainly not the case.

If anyone can provide me with even one single authentic use of the term "Master Race" by any German National Socialist, I should be much obliged.

(Note: Post-war neo-Nazi imitators do not count; there is a rock band called "Herrenrasse". Let's have an authentic quotation, with correct sources.
S'il vous plaît, Monsieur.)

C.P.

15 MARCH 2007