Word: herrenvolk
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...Normandy beachhead poured 15,000 prisoners wearing the Reichswehr green. Most of them were Germans but a surprising proportion was not. With the Aryan supermen came a polyglot sprinkling of at least 12 nationalities. Some of the slave peoples, it seemed, could be persuaded to fight for the Herrenvolk...
Typical of the blown-in-the-bottle Herrenvolk was a captured, one-eyed German infantry captain who told interviewers that Germany would never give up, said he wanted to fight "until America realizes Germany must have Lebensraum." He admitted that the German Army contained criminal elements, explained "we have been fighting the Russians and we must fight very hard...
...quite impossible for the Germans to put across any Herrenvolk stuff in the face of the innocent arrogance of British soldiers, who are impenetrable to the idea of German superiority and simply think it uproariously funny. This baffles the Germans...
Cope postulated South Africa's problem No. 1 today as the racial deadlock, said it distorts all major issues brought before Parliament and prevents united progressive action on native (Negro) policy, industrialization, agriculture and a dozen other major problems. Wrote he: "Nationalists want an Afrikaans Herrenvolk Republic, British extremists want a jingo Dominion. If no positive move is made to break this deadlock, the Smuts Government will collapse within five years. Chaos will follow which may end in a fight to the death between Englishmen and Afrikanders...
...booming platitudes about freedom from want fail to interest the pensive soldier. He is also unmoved by the frenzied screechings of Mr. Escapegoat, the diplomat, and the Rev. Hateman, the cleric, who unite in a Vansittart diatribe about German savagery and sing a duet: "The Germans are not the Herrenvolk. We are the Herrenvolk...