Published 2011-03-01
“…Thus, collections displayed in SS museums in
concentration camps were instrumental in the process of defining the Aryan Übermensch (superhuman) as the personification of all desirable physical, cultural and intellectual attributes, born to conquer and rule the world as a member of the Herrenvolk (master race), and the non-Aryan, above all the Jewish Untermensch (subhuman) as his opposite, a radically other and barely human, suitable only for menial chores.The first museum established in German
concentration camps was opened in
Dachau early in the 1930s. …”
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