Race-soul

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In Nazi ideology, the race-soul, race soul or racial soul (German: Rassenseele) is a "[m]ystical racial psyche greater than any individual member of the German race".[1] The race-soul was variously believed to be the source of such things as justice and poetry; non-Aryan and mixed races were believed to lack these qualities.

References

  1. ^ Michael, Robert; Karin Doerr (2002). Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich. Westport, Connecticut & London: Greenwood Press. p. 327. ISBN 0-313-32106-X. OCLC 47254255.

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