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by mty » 18 Mar 2021, 14:59
These concepts refer to so-called "Güntherian" racial categories of European people, based on works of Hans F.K. Günther, the most profilic race theorist in Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. According to him and other contemporary sources as well, most Germans were of either Nordic (Nordisch), Dinaric (Dinarisch), Alpine (Ostisch) and Mediterranean (Westisch) type or some degree of mixture of these.
Northern and coastal parts of the country were mostly Nordic whereas Southern Germany as well as Austria were characterized by Dinaric and Alpine types. Some strands within National Socialism, i.e. the SS and Darre's agricultural organization regarded the Nordic type as most valuable and preferable and consequently favored representatives of that type in recruitment and selection. However, even SS welcomed harmonious mixtures of Nordic with either Dinaric (so-called Noric sub-type, fairly common around Danube, Kurt Waldheim is an excellent example of that mixture), Alpine or Mediterranean types as long as they had clearly recognizable Nordic traits. This unique applicant screening based on Günther's categories was devised by his proponents in RuSHA, Dr. Bruno K. Schulz and Dr. Horst Rechenbach.