Word: aryanism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, Manhattan; they have upwards of 6.000 members; they hold meetings, collect dues, wear Nazi uniforms and sometimes drill in turnhallen; members of the League of Friends of the New Germany pledge: "I do not belong to any secret organization of any kind [Freemasons, etc.]. I am of Aryan descent, free of Jewish or colored racial traces"; their political ideal "is organically conceived and consequently the very antithesis of liberal Democratic ideas. Believing in the authority of leadership . . . we advocate a state of truly sovereign authority which dominates all the forces of the nation...
...Strict enforcement of the Nazi "non-Aryan clause" which has barred professing Christians of Jewish blood from Evangelical churches. Special "Ghetto churches" should be provided for such "Jewish Christians...
Highest Bishop Muller tried to calm his flock by suspending temporarily the "non-Aryan clause," but non-Nazi pastors rallied 3,000 strong to denounce the Nazi "German Christians." Risking reprisals from Nazi Storm Troopers, they read out from 3,000 pulpits throughout the Reich a stinging protest directed, by implication, at the Nazi State itself. "Heathendom has penetrated into the bosom of our church," they read. "Many Christians have to submit their consciences to human leaders, in contradiction of the essence of the Church...
...coined and defined by Nazis the term "non-Aryan" means a person with one or more Jewish grandparents...
...statesman's chief principle. Even the professor's monocled son-in-law quickly drops his Jewish mistress, confiding: ''Had I known of the success in store for our leader two years ago, my interest in women would have been conducted on a strictly Aryan basis." To the family's great distress it is soon discovered that the professor, an eminent surgeon, has Jewish blood in his veins. At this point the Chancellor is injured in a motor accident. Only the Jewish professor is skillful enough to save him-with a blood transfusion donated...