Honorary Aryan

Honorary Aryan

Honorary Aryan ( _de. Ehrenarier) is a term from Nazi Germany; it was a status granted by the Nazi Bureau of Race Research to people who were not considered to be biologically part of the Aryan race as conceived by the Nazis (or enemy nationals who joined Hitler or the Nazis' side), but were granted an "honorary" status of being part of that race, for example because their services were deemed valuable to the German economy. ["In the Wind", "The Nation" Vol. 147, Issue 7. August 13 1938. ]

Following the Anti-Comintern Pact on Communism, signed in 1936 Hitler bestowed the title on the Japanese people. The Japanese, though of a different ethnicity, were considered by Nazi ideologists, such as Heinrich Himmler, to have similar enough qualities to German-Nordic blood in order to warrant an alliance with them. [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhitler.htm] . Himmler possessed an interest in anthropology of Asian peoples and pantheist religions, which the Koreans and Japanese shared with Indians and pre-Christian Europeans (see Germanic Neopaganism and Ariosophy),

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