Nordicism is a racialist ideology which views the "Nordic race" as a superior racial group. Some notable and influential Nordicist works include Madison Grant's book The Passing of the Great Race; Art
Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) shows German war hero Karl von Müller as an example of the Nordic type.
Hans F. K. Günther (1891–1968), prominent German racial theorist who helped to popularise Nordicism in his country
Adolf Hitler was a proponent of the concept of the Aryan race and of Aryanism. He viewed the Nordic racial subtype as the apex of the racial hierarchy within the Aryan race.
Illustration of the Nordic type from a Nazi wall chart (c. 1935)
National Socialism, commonly known as Nazism is the far-right, ultranationalist, racist, totalitarian ideology associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. It emerged in Germany during Hitler's ri
Nordicism
…was also present in other countries outside Northwestern Europe and the United States, such as Australia, Canada, and South Africa. By the 1930s, the Nazis claimed that the Nordic race was the most superior branch of the "Aryan race" and constituted a master race (Herrenrasse). The full application of this…
The Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler (here pictured in 1938) titled himself Führer and ruled Germany from 1933 to 1945.
Nazis alongside members of the far-right reactionary and monarchist German National People's Party (DNVP) during the brief NSDAP–DNVP alliance in the Harzburg Front from 1931 to 1932
Members of the Nazi Party can be seen seated in the Reichstag in the left foreground, the far-right seats from the speakers point of view.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the fathers of German nationalism