Word: nordics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...
...records for hauling passengers on Berlin trams, busses, subways and elevated lines were broken with a figure of 5,100,000 on the day Il Duce and Der Fuhrer keynoted in a heavy rain. This soddened everything but the Nordic cheers of their vast open-air audience nearly 1,000,000 of whom were Germans who had got up at 7 a.m. to march and drill all day in their Nazi organizations before they took their stand to hear the speeches at 7 p.m. As a furious cloudburst came down Mussolini made a quick remark to Hitler who gestured...
...Race is most often mouthed by those who claim superiority because of their lineage. Debased in this way, it remains "little more than a slogan of mass snobbery . . ." Absurd are those who boast of their "pure" racial ancestry; usually they call themselves "Nordics." There is probably not an unmixed Nordic in the world unless he exists in a remote part of Sweden or at the source of a Norwegian fjord, and even there he may have Mongoloid Lappish blood. To scientists a "pure race" is almost an abstraction; anyway, the greatest cultural achievements have been produced by racially mixed peoples...
German booksellers did roaring business last week when there appeared on the market an antiSemitic, Nazified version of The Gospel According to St. John, adapted from Martin Luther's standard German translation of the Bible. This was big news for Nordic churchgoers, because the man responsible for the metamorphosis of St. John into an up-to-date Nazi was none other than Dr. Heinz Weidemann, Bishop of Bremen, who is no black sheep of the German Evangelical Church but one of its prime spiritual forces...
...Hitler might produce his big stick and drub Switzerland. As a Chicago Daily News headline put it, the Saint Gustloff murder case had become a "trial of Jews, Nazis and Switzerland itself." Eager to convince the furious Führer that they were on the right side of the Nordic fence, the Federal Council last week introduced a drastic, antiCommunist bill making even the most innocent Swiss flirtations with Moscow a penal offense...