Word: untermenschen
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...fierce nurturing exuberance was in utmost contrast to the coddling anxieties of a beautiful, irascible Viennese mother. Mama believed she had gone below < her station in the polyglot provinces of the Bukovina. Father was sexually unfaithful to her and volcanic in temper; an anti-Semite who despised Nazis as Untermenschen; a watercolorist, photographer and architectural historian whose diversions included dragging a dead wild boar through the hall and up the stairs in the course of a soiree. Above all, Baron von Rezzori was an obsessive hunter, whose profound and almost mystical relation with the woods and the etiquette...
...think you and your untermenschen are full of it," read one letter. 'Untermenschen' is a term Nazi leaders used to describe Jews and other non-Aryan groups...
...visited horrors upon all the nations and peoples it touched. All Eastern Europeans were Untermenschen in the Nazi world view, all were similarly mistreated, all are equally dead. I am angered at the continual parade of the figure 6 million Jewish dead and the absolute failure to notice the stunning loss of life by others...
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