Word: aryanized
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...Their different environments and histories have molded distinctive national characteristics. From their proximity to Western Europe and to each other in the north's most densely populated country, the Danes are the merriest, laziest, most sophisticated and animated (their compulsive small talk is known as snak). The non-Aryan Finns are of nomadic Magyar stock and are caricatured as somnolent, introverted and dour. The isolated Norwegians have a reputation for being tough, brave and simple. The Swedes, who were greatly influenced in the 19th century by Germany, are thought of as stiff, shrewd and neurotic. If a Norwegian invents...
...Aryan Look. The postwar German girl seems to have come from another world than the one her mother inhabited and in effect, she has. German women have always had considerable natural assets-among others, the advantage of being, despite Hitler's theories, a mixture of many different racial strains. But the assets tended to be hidden in one way or another. Romantic German poets sang the love of their women to the point of distraction, but their heroines usually sounded remote and untouchable. Faust's demure Gretchen was touchable, all right-but he left her to go cavorting...
Though even blondes bleached their hair for the super-Aryan look, the Nazis frowned on such womanly weapons as alluring clothes and makeup, considered that cotton undershirts and muslin slips were the proper attire for the descendants of breast-plated Valkyries. Their functional ideal was personified by Hitler's dark-blonde mistress, Eva Braun, and like her, it died with Hitler...
...drive to preserve the Aryan race, Adolf Hitler did not stop with the extermination of the Jews. In 1940, Hitler appointed Dr. Werner Heyde, a pale, bespectacled SS major and former Wiirzburg University Medicine lecturer, supervisor of "Operation Mercy Killing." Until courageous protests from German church leaders forced the Nazis to curtail the program in 1941, Heyde and a staff of "selectors" in his euthanasia task force killed more than 100,000 mental defectives, including many who were only senile or epileptic...
...suicide (like her daughter, the old woman leapt out of a window) and her grandfather's death, she was left alone. She fell in love. Her Jewish fiance had a forged identity card. When he applied to marry her, the authorities explained to him that as an Aryan he was forbidden to marry a Jew. He confessed the forgery and they were married. On Sept. 21, 1943 a Gestapo truck drew up to their home. Both died in the gas chamber at Auschwitz...