Peter Lewerin
2 min readSep 5, 2021

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Third Reich Nazism, which I am talking about in my original posting, is quite different from neo-Nazism. Neo-Nazism is basically a white-supremacy ideology with some inherited flourishes, but TRN was something else. It could be that if we compared notes on neo-Nazism that we would find that we agree on most things, but you seem to apply your understanding of neo-Nazism on TRN, which won’t help you. One has to be careful in drawing parallels between them.

For instance, the TRNs didn’t “tolerate” Indian people as non-Aryans. To the TRN, Indian people were Aryans. They used the Swastika, an Indian symbol, to symbolise the Aryan peoples in Europe and Asia. (Also see Savitri Devi.) The TRNs idolised blonde and blue-eyed Nordic people, which makes many believe that blonde hair and blue eyes in themselves were Nazi ideal features (and to neo-Nazis they are) and that brown skin, hair, and eyes would be unacceptable to them.

In fact, the TRNs regarded the Nordics as an unpolluted offshoot of the pre-Christian German tribes: their hair colour and eye colour didn’t matter. The TRN would still be against an Indian having children with a German, even though both were Aryans. They were considered to be too far apart in the tree of peoples’ ancestry and their children would be ethnically undefined. They used the saying that the brown man was their brother but should not be their brother-in-law.

Blonde hair and blue eyes are common among the north-western Slavic peoples, but those features didn’t save them from being regarded as fit only for enslavement or extermination. To rebuild the numbers of Aryans after the war, the Nazis stole blonde/blue-eyed children in e.g. Poland to give to childless Germans to raise. Not because those children were Aryan children born to Slavs by mistake, but because it would be easier to keep those children ignorant of their real origin if they would fit in by their looks.

Also, of course, not all Nazis during the 1930s and 1940s were ideologues who honoured this system of philosophical racism. During the Kristallnacht, (sorry, can’t find any reference now) a man from Punjab was seized and beaten by SA-men who didn’t let him show them his identification with his Aryan classification.

Yes, Gamergate. Followed by similar “movements” that tried to purge comics, films, and tv from equality and diversity. Including, at least to some extent, those who have been attacking the production of the 13th Doctor since before even one episode had aired.

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Peter Lewerin
Peter Lewerin

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Algorithmician, history buff, non-practicing hedonist. Whovian, ghiblist: let there be wonder. Argumentative, punster, has delusions of eloquence.

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