Aryan, or Arya, is a term originating from the ethno-cultural self-designation of the Indo-Iranians. It stood in contrast to nearby outsiders, whom they designated as non-Aryan. In ancient India, the
One of the earliest epigraphically attested reference to the word arya occurs in the 6th-century BCE Behistun inscription, which describes itself as having been composed "in arya [language or script]" (§ 70). As is also the case for all other Old Iranian language usage, the arya of the inscription does not signify anything but "Iranian".
Full figure of Darius trampling rival Gaumata
Head of Darius with crenellated crown
Arthur de Gobineau (1816–1882)
The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of orders and laws implemented in Nazi Germany under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler, based on pseudoscientific and racist doctrines asserting the superior
Eva Justin of the Racial Hygiene and Demographic Biology Research Unit measuring the skull of a Romani woman.
Bruno Beger conducting anthropometric studies in Sikkim.
Propaganda for Nazi Germany's T4 Euthanasia Program: "This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the community 60,000 ℛ︁ℳ︁ during his lifetime. Fellow German, that is your money, too." from the Office of Racial Policy's Neues Volk.
Public reading of Julius Streicher's antisemitic newspaper Der Stürmer, Worms, Germany, 1935.