The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle

Author:Heather Pringle [Pringle, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hyperion
Published: 2006-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

18. SEARCHING FOR THE STAR OF DAVID

Sitting in their orderly offices in Berlin, SS racial experts were greatly troubled by the extraordinary cultural richness of the Soviet Union. Surrounded by neatly arranged card indexes and carefully alphabetized file folders, they had never grasped before the unruly complexity of the world. They had never understood that a nation such as the Soviet Union could be so vast, so complicated, so chaotic, or that human beings could be so diverse, so exotic, so difficult to pigeonhole. More than eighty different ethnic groups resided in the country—from the Belorussians to the Moldavians, the Ossetians to the Chuvash, the Kazakhs to the Mongols, the Tungus to the Dargins, the Chechens to the Kabardas, the Mordvins to the Mansi, the Nenets to the Koryaks.1 And this posed serious questions for the racial specialists of RuSHA. Who among all of these peoples was Aryan? And exactly who was Jewish? Each day seemed to bring new doubts.

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