Word: aryanized
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...that reason significant. it is significant also because it is facing with courage and with practical activity a problem of the future which is a concern both of the non-Jews and of Jews themselves. It is trying to educate the Jew to live in an Aryan culture without destroying his own. Because it acts with other liberal organizations, it is a most important force for the preservation of the democratic spirit in young minds. And by helping the Jews, it is doing its part to keep from all Americans the horrors of anti-Semitism and Fascism at home...
...Wagner not only glorified pagan German gods and goddesses in his Ring of the Nibelungs; he and his wife Cosima were also openly antiSemitic, believed and spread the racial nonsense preached by Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Yet Wagner himself was perhaps what Nazis call non-Aryan. He may have been the son of a supposedly part-Jewish actor named Ludwig Geyer. Last week this old contention, long pishtushed by German Wagnerites, was bolstered by new evidence...
...first two volumes of his mammoth Life of Richard Wagner, scholarly Biographer Ernest Newman, musicritic of the London Sunday Times, viewed the Geyer issue from a safe perch on the fence. In the third volume, published this week (Knopf; $5), Mr. Newman let himself carefully down on the non-Aryan side. Fundamental premise: Geyer was a lodger in the household of Police Actuary Carl Friedrich Wagner in Leipzig; there is no evidence that he was not there in the late summer of 1812, when Johanna Rosina Wagner conceived the child who was to be called Richard. New evidence...
Actually two out of every five current refugees are "100% Aryan" enough to pass even Herr Hitler's breeding tests. And this proportion is going up as Nazi influence spreads through Vichy's France and Portugal. There are Finns, Poles, Norwegians, Spaniards, Dutch, as well as Frenchmen-seven million of them-who want to leave Marseille and Lisbon before the Storm troopers arrive. All, of course, would prefer to come here, but they will go wherever the door is open from Alaska to South Africa. We have already admitted many, and we will gain by taking as many more...
...November, the Evangelicals realized that Hitler's hand-picked candidate was out to Nazify their church, crucify Christian doctrine, apply the "Führer Principle" to church government and the "Aryan paragraph" to church personnel. Resistance flared up all over the Reich, and the newly united church split sharply into three groups...