Word: herrenvolk
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Finally, Jeffries ought to be unacceptable to the leaders of BSA because his actions and thinking are without virtue. His model for a solution to America's racist degradation of Black folks is right out of the fascist handbook for the degradation of the German herrenvolk. It is a neurotically twisted paradigm, appealing to the base needs of injured Black folks for revenge and for a scapegoat, and he chooses as scapegoat one of the longstanding victims of Western Civilization's fascist scapegoating impulse--Jews...
...ante-bellum terminology in his incoherent notation on the movie [Raisin in the Sun]. I don't have any idea what "Mammy" and "blackface" adjectives have to do with reviewing a motion picture, but save your copy; it is believed, in some quarters of the world, that the Herrenvolk may rise again...
...throwing firecrackers, but the husbands of some of the women stood by and chased them off. Meanwhile, the women addressed letters to the people of South Africa; among them was a German immigrant who wrote: "I do not want to live in a country where arrogance and the Herrenvolk ideal can suppress honesty and freedom...
Meanwhile England watched warily for the appearance of Germany's long-promised V2, reputedly a rocket bomb of vast destructive powers and far greater range than V1. Considering Germany's industrial plight, V-2 might seem a forlorn hope to the soberer Herrenvolk. But after the V-1 blitz, Britons were not discounting anything. England would not be entirely safe until Germany...
...Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito's National Army of Liberation, with a leaven of British and U.S. specialists (notably in demolition, radio, and intelligence), slashed gaps in railroad lines along which the Germans might try to retreat. The little people of the hills, ground down by the Herrenvolk, were rising in arms. And already the Russian armies were knocking at the Iron Gate to join them...