Untermensch is a German-language word literally meaning 'underhuman or 'subhuman', which was extensively used by Germany's Nazi Party to refer to their opponents and non-Aryan people they deemed as in
Cover of the Nazi propaganda brochure "Der Untermensch" ("The Subhuman"), 1942. The SS booklet depicted the natives of Russia as "subhumans".
Austro-Hungarian postcard made in 1914 which features the rhyming slogan "Serbia must die!" Such images were representative of the social attitudes underlying the concept of untermensch.
A chart used to illustrate the Nazi Nuremberg Laws introduced in 1935
This poster (from around 1938) reads: "60,000 Reichsmark is what this person suffering from a hereditary defect costs the People's community during his lifetime. Fellow citizen, that is your money too. Read the Neues Volk, the monthly magazine of the Office of Racial Policy of the NSDAP."
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany in the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chan
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…Untermenschen' bezeichnete."] Despite Nazi official support for The Myth of the Twentieth Century and Rosenberg's prominent role in promoting Nazi ideology, Adolf Hitler declared that it was not to be considered the official ideology of the Nazi Party, and he privately described the book as "mysticism" and "nonsense…
Hitler's father, Alois, c. 1900
Hitler's mother, Klara, 1870s