Arno Breker's 1939 neoclassical sculpture Die Partei (The Party), which flanked one of the entrances to the Albert Speer designed Reich Chancellery of the Third Reich, encapsulated the National Socialist ideals of the Aryan master race, with Die Partei as the physical embodiment of the spirit of the Nazi Party. Believers in eugenics, the Nazis attempted to create a Nordic Aryan master race, or super race.

Master race was a phrase and concept originating in the slave-holding Southern US.^{[citation needed]} The later phrase Herrenvolk (German: die Herrenrasse,  das Herrenvolk (help·info)), interpreted as 'master race', was a concept in Nazi ideology in which a supposed Nordic people, as a branch of what in a late-19th and early-20th century racialist taxonomy was called the Aryan race, represented an ideal and "pure race". In Nazi ideology this "Nordic" race was the purest example of the original racial stock of those who were then called the Proto-Aryans,^[1] whom the Nazis believed to have prehistorically dwelt on the North German Plain and to have ultimately originated from the lost continent of Atlantis.^[2] The Nazis declared that the Nordics, or in their mythology, the Germanic peoples, were the true Aryans because they were less racially mixed with "non-native" Indo-European peoples than other people of what were then called the Aryan peoples (now generally called the Indo-European peoples), such as the Slavic peoples, the Romance peoples and the Indo-Iranian peoples.^[3] Based on this claim that the "Nordic" peoples were superior to all other races, the Nazis believed they were entitled to world domination.^[3] This concept is known as Nordicism.

The Nazis maintained that for example the Northern Russians had Nordic traits such as light hair and light eye color and were racially fit to be a part of the master race. The Nazis also considered some percentages of young Slavs like Poles, Czechs, Ukrainians, and Belarusians to be the sufficient subjects for Germanisation. However, it was believed that for instance the Polish people were too patriotic and would ultimately resist Germanisation, what resulted in the Generalplan Ost, according to which all of the Slavs from East-Central Europe were destined to be expelled from the European continent by the Third Reich. Nevertheless, the Nazi Germans eventually decided to exterminate the Poles, so as the vast majority of the Slavic people who, along with the Jews and Gypsies, were defined as untermenschen, dangerous for the Germanic peoples representing the master race.^[4]

Historical background[link]

The Übermensch (German) (English Overman or Superman) is a concept in the philosophy of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche--he posited the Übermensch as a goal for humanity to set for itself in his 1883 book Thus Spoke Zarathustra (German: Also Sprach Zarathustra). However, Nietzsche never developed the concept on racial grounds; the philosopher was no racist (nor an anti-semite). Instead, the Übermensch "seems to be the ideal aim of spiritual development more than a biological goal.".^[5] Nazism distorted the real meaning behind the concept to fit its 'master race' view.

Mendelian genetics was rediscovered^{[citation needed]} in 1900, providing the basis of the genetic inheritance maps used by Nazi eugenicists to identify persons of the Jewish race. In relation to models of inheritance, race is treated by Nazi eugenicists not as a single gene inherited in a mendelian fashion, and is not based upon mendelian inheritance.

By the late 19th century and early 20th century, it was posited that the Indo-Europeans (then generally also referred to as Aryans) made up the highest branch of humanity because their civilization was the most technologically advanced. This reasoning simultaneously intertwined with Nordicism which proclaimed the "Nordic race" as the "purest" form of said Aryan race. As such, this "Nordic race" came to be regarded by the right wing in Europe, Northern America, Southern South America and Australasia to be a "master race" because of its supposed innate leadership qualities and advancements in civilization. Today this view is regarded as scientific racism because it contradicts racial equality by positing that one race is superior to other races.

Eugenics[link]

Eugenics came to play a prominent role in this racial thought as a way to improve and maintain the "purity" of the Aryan master race. Eugenics was a concept adhered to by many thinkers in the 1910s, 1920s, and 1930s, such as Margaret Sanger,^[6][7] Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, Emile Zola, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling^[8] and Sidney Webb.^[9][10] Aldous Huxley’s best-selling novel Brave New World, about a future society based on eugenics, was published in 1932. Human “dog and pony show” type events (organized by advocates of eugenics), where men and women appeared on stage in swimsuits in eugenic competitions (only Nordic Aryans were allowed to enter) to be evaluated for their physical and mental qualities as marriage partners were common throughout Europe and North America in the 1920s. The Nazis took this concept to the limit by establishing a program to systematically genetically enhance the Nordic Aryans themselves through a program of Nazi eugenics, based on the eugenics laws of the United States state of California,^[11] to create a super race.^[3]

White racist hierarchy[link]

The modern concept of the master race in general derives from 19th-century racial theory, which posited a hierarchy of races based on darkness of skin color. This 19th-century concept was largely initially developed by Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau. Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and "African savages" at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans (consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch) were at the top; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans (consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i.e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race) in the upper middle ranks; Slavs (Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants. Also, the Nazis wanted to conquer them and take their land so Nazi Germany could obtain Lebensraum--Nazi propaganda referred to the Slavs as the Untermensch ["subhumans"].) and those of the olive-skinned Semitic race (another subrace of the Caucasian race) in the middle ranks (it was because the Jews, being Semites, were clever that they were so dangerous--they had their own plan for Jewish world domination, a conspiracy that had to be opposed by all thoughtful Aryans, declared the Nazis^[3]); and those of the yellow Mongoloid race^[12] (including its offshoots the brown Malayan race and the red American Indian race), the Dravidian race, the Hamitic race (regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race), and mixed-race people such as Eurasians, the bronze Mestizos, Mulattos, Afro-Asians, and Zambos in the lower middle ranks.

'Master race' in the United States[link]

In the United States, the concept of 'master race' arose within the context of master-slave race relations in the slavery-based society of historical America - particularly in the South in the mid-nineteenth century. It was based upon both the experience of slavery and the pseudo-scientific justifications for racial slavery, but also on the relations between whites in the South and North, particularly during the American Civil War.

The Oxford English Dictionary credits William J. Grayson with having first used the phrase master race, in his poem The Hireling and the Slave (1855):

where the phrase denotes the relation between the white masters and negro slaves. By 1860 Virginian author George Fitzhugh was using the "challenging phrase “master race”, which soon came to mean considerably more than the ordinary master-slave relationship".^[13] Fitzhugh, along with a number of southern writers, used the term to differentiate Southerners from Northerners, based on the dichotomy that Southerners were supposedly descendents of Normans / Cavaliers whereas Northerners were descendents of Anglo-Saxons / Puritans.^[14]

In 1861 the Southern press bragged that Northern soldiers would "encounter a master race" and knowledge of this fact would cause Northern soldiers' "knees to tremble".^[15] The Richmond Whig in 1862 proclaimed that "the master race of this continent is found in the southern states",^[16] and in 1863 the Richmond Examiner stated that "there are slave races born to serve, master races born to govern"^[17]

In the works of John H. Van Evrie, a Northern supporter of the Confederacy, the term was interchangeable with white supremacy, notably in White Supremacy and Negro Subordination, Or, Negroes a Subordinate Race and (so-called) slavery its normal condition (1861). In Subgeneation: the theory of the normal relations of the races; an answer to miscegenation (1864) Van Evrie created the words “subgen” to describe what he considered to be the "inferior races" and “subgeneation” to describe the ‘normal’ relation of such inferior races to whites, something which he considered to be the "very corner-stone of democracy";^[18] but these words never entered the dictionary.

Following the defeat of the Confederacy the term master race immediately fell into disuse.

Nordicism[link]

Meyers Blitz-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1932) shows a famous German war hero (Karl von Müller) as an example of the Nordic type.

The origins of the Nazi version of the theory of the master race were in 19th-century racial theories of Count Joseph Arthur De Gobineau, who argued that cultures degenerated when distinct races mixed. It was believed at this time that Southern European and Eastern European peoples were racially mixed with non-European Moors from across the Mediterranean Sea, while Northern Europeans and Western Europeans remained pure. Proponents of Nordic theory further argued that Nordic peoples had developed innate toughness and determination due to the harsh, challenging climate in which they evolved. The racial ideal of these theorists was the tall, blond and light eyed Nordic individual.

The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer was one of the earliest proponents of a theory presenting a hierarchical racial model of history, attributing civilisational primacy to the "white races" who gained their sensitivity and intelligence by refinement in the rigorous north.

The highest civilisation and culture, apart from the ancient Indians and Egyptians, are found exclusively among the white races; and even with many dark peoples, the ruling caste or race is fairer in colour than the rest and has, therefore, evidently immigrated, for example, the Brahmins, the Incas, and the rulers of the South Sea Islands. All this is because necessity is the mother of invention because those tribes that emigrated early to the north and there gradually became white, had to develop all their intellectual powers and invent and perfect all the arts in their struggle with need, want and misery, which in their many forms were brought about by the climate. This they had to do in order to make up for the parsimony of nature and out of it all came their high civilisation.^[19]

Despite this, he was adamantly against differing treatment of races, was fervently anti-slavery, and supported the abolitionist movement in the United States. He describes the treatment of "[our] innocent black brothers whom force and injustice have delivered into [the slave-master's] devilish clutches" as "belonging to the blackest pages of mankind's criminal record".^[20]

Hans Frank, Hitler's personal lawyer, stated that Hitler carried a copy of Schopenhauer's book The World as Will and Representation with him wherever he went throughout World War I.^[21]

Nevertheless, such theorists usually accepted that considerable variety of hair and eye colour existed even within the racial categories they recognised. Contrary to the popular urban legend myth, the Nazis did not discriminate against "Aryans" who did not have blonde hair or light-eyes, or had only one of these features. Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials had dark hair and were still considered to be Aryan.

The postulated superiority of these people was said to make them born leaders, or a "master race." Other authors included Guido von List, and his associate Lanz von Liebenfels, and the British racial theorist Houston Stewart Chamberlain, all of whom felt that the white race and Germanic peoples were superior to others, and that given the purification of the white race and German people from the races who were "polluting" it, a new millennarian age of Aryan god-men would arrive.

Nazi policy stressed the superiority of the Nordic race, a sub-race of the white Caucasian race European population defined by anthropometric models of racial difference. The Nordic race was said to comprise only the Germanic peoples (Germans, Norwegians, Danes, Swedes, Finland-Swedes,^[22] Estonia-Swedes, Faroese, Icelanders and Dutch people).

Aryanism and Nazism[link]

The term Aryan derives from the Sanskrit word (ā́rya), which derived from arya, the original Indo-Iranian autonym. Also, the word Iran is the Persian word for land/place of the Aryan^[23] (see also Iranian peoples).

Following the ideas of Gobineau and others, the Nazi theorist Alfred Rosenberg determined that these people, who, he claimed, were originally from Atlantis, were a dynamic warrior people who dwelt in prehistoric times in northern climates on the North German Plain, from which they migrated riding their chariots southeast, eventually reaching Ukraine, Iran, and then India. They were supposed to be the ancestors of the ancient Germanic tribes, who shared their warrior values. Rosenberg claimed that Christianity was an alien Semitic slave-morality inappropriate to the warrior Aryan master race and thus supported a melange of aspects of Hindu Vedic and Zoroastrian teachings (both of these religions having been organised by Aryans), along with pre-Christian European Odinistic paganism, which he also considered to be distinctively Aryan in character.^[2]

In Nazi Germany, a so-called mixed marriage of an "Aryan" with an "Untermensch" was forbidden in order to maintain the purity of the Germanic master race, eugenics was practiced. In order to eliminate "defective" citizens, the T-4 Euthanasia Program was administered by Karl Brandt to rid the country of the mentally retarded or those born with genetic deficiencies, as well as those deemed to be racially inferior. Additionally, a programme of compulsory sterilisation was undertaken which resulted in the forced operations of hundreds of thousands of individuals. Many of these policies are generally seen as being related to what eventually became known as the Holocaust. ^[24]

Mediterranean race[link]

The fact that the Mediterranean race is responsible for the most important of ancient western civilisations was a problem for the promoters of Nordic superiority. According to Giuseppe Sergi, the Mediterranean race was the "greatest race of the world" and was singularly responsible for the most accomplished civilisations of ancient times, including those of Persia, Egypt, Greece, Phoenicia, Carthage, and Rome. The Mediterranean race was also a major influence to the outside world in the modern era, the most significant being Spain and Portugal when they became global empires, influencing most of the Americas. Spain is also responsible for being one of the first nations in discovering and colonising the Americas by its conquistadors.

C. G. Seligman also stated that "it must, I think, be recognised that the Mediterranean race has actually more achievements to its credit than any other race, since it is responsible for by far the greater part of Mediterranean civilisation, certainly before 1000 BC (and probably much later), and so shaped not only the Aegean cultures, but those of Western as well as the greater part of Eastern Mediterranean lands, while the culture of their near relatives, the Hamitic pre-dynastic Egyptians, formed the basis of that of Egypt."^[25]

The Nazis explained this away by claiming that the elite warriors of the aristocracy of Ancient Greece, of Ancient Rome, and of the Spanish Empire were Nordic Aryans who had migrated south. However, they did admit that those of the Mediterranean race in general and notably such geniuses of the Mediterranean race as Michaelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci tended to be more creative than Nordics.^[2]

Master race in fiction[link]

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Aryan master race ideology was common throughout the educated and literate strata of the Western world until after World War II. Such theories were commonplace in early-20th century fantasy literature.

In the original 1920s and 1930s Buck Rogers stories and newspaper cartoons, Buck Rogers, in his adventures in the 25th century that take place on Earth, fights for Aryan-Americans from the liberated zone around Niagara, New York, against the Red Mongol Empire, a Chinese empire of the future which rules most of North America.^[26]

In the 1930s, both educational and storybooks for children in Germany taught their readers about the master race. In the Sun Koh science fiction series where Koh says things like "My forefathers were Aryan". In a story about Atlantis, Koh says, "If our Atlantis once again rises out of the sea, then we will get from there the blond, steel-hard men with the pure blood and will create with them the master race, which will finally rule the earth."^[27] The German writer Michael Ende, who was born in 1929 and grew up such books, in the 1950s, wrote his classic novel Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver as a way of opposing the Nazi propaganda he was taught. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writer Julia Voss wrote a book^{[note 1]} on Jim Button, uncovering the Ende's many references to Nazi symbols.^[28] Voss shows how Ende upends the Nazi belief that Atlantis was the original home of the Aryan race by creating his own submerged city and making it rise, but not restore Aryan master-race rule over the earth, rather it becomes a multi-racial paradise with Jim Button, who is black, as its king.^[27]

In Doctor Who, the Doctor's frequent enemies, the Daleks, consider themselves a master race who must purge the universe of all others; Terry Nation explicitly modeled them on the Nazis.^[29] In the 2009 special The End of Time, when the Master transforms the entire human race into copies of himself, he claims that there is no human race, but only "the Master race".

In the Harry Potter series, while the parallels were not originally intentional, there is much similarity between Voldemort's Pureblood ideology and the Master Race ideology of the Nazis, with wizards being "pure" and anyone with Muggle (non-wizard) blood being considered "half-blood" or "mudblood", a word treated the way a racial slur would be treated in the real world. ^[30]

Footnotes[link]

References[link]

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After starting as an associate of Guru of Gang Starr (he made a rare rapping appearance on Guru's Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2 project and his only released solo track ever, "Who's The Truest" appeared on a Guru sampler CD which also included "Hi-Energy", a song he produced for Fabidden), True Master joined up with the Wu-Tang and was mentored by RZA before gradually increasing his profile with standout tracks on Wu-Tang albums ("Brooklyn Zoo", "Heaterz", "Fish"). He was to become extremely prolific and a crucial member of the Wu-Tang production crew during its busy 1997–2000 period. He has generally adhered to the traditional Wu-Tang sound, while the group's original main producer RZA ventured into cleaner, "Digital" territory with a limited use of samples and the inclusion of synthesizers and live instrumentation. True Master briefly tried his hand at more compositional keyboard-based productions in lieu of his signature sample-based style on the Gravediggaz album Nightmare in A Minor. He is current working on his debut album "Master Craftsman" that will feature Wu Tang members and Killa Beez & recently released a collaboration album with veteran MC KRS-One called Meta-Historical.

On September 14, 2011, True Master was arrested at his Harlem apartment for escaping from a New York courthouse after being arraigned on charges of sexual assault.^[1]

Production credits[link]

1993[link]

• Guru presents Ill Kid Records (1993)

07. True Master - "Who's the Truest"

09. Fabidden - "Hi Energy"

1995[link]

• Ol' Dirty Bastard - Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (March 28, 1995)

04. "Brooklyn Zoo" (Co-produced with Ol' Dirty Bastard)

• Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (July 18, 1995)

04. Looking Through Darkness (featuring Mica Paris) (Produced by True Master and co-produced by Guru)

05. Medicine (featuring True Master and Ini Kamoze)

1996[link]

• Ghostface Killah - Ironman (October 29, 1996)

09. "Fish" (featuring Cappadonna and Raekwon)

• Various artists - NFL Jams (Import) (November 26, 1996)

04. Method Man and Ricky Watters - "It's In The Game"

1997[link]

• Various artists - Rhyme & Reason (soundtrack) (January 14, 1997)

07. The RZA - "Tragedy" (Produced by True Master and co-produced by RZA)

• Wu-Tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever (June 3, 1997)

2-09. "The M.G.M."

2-13. "Heaterz" (featuring Cappadonna)

• Gravediggaz - The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel (October 14, 1997)

03. "Da Bomb"

08. "Pit of Snakes" (Produced by True Master and co-produced by RZA)

12. "Hidden Emotions" (featuring True Master)

1998[link]

• Cappadonna - The Pillage (March 24, 1998)

01. "Slang Editorial"

05. "Supa Ninjaz" (featuring U-God and Method Man)

07. "Splish Splash"

09. "Milk the Cow" (featuring Method Man)

12. "Dart Throwing" (featuring Raekwon and Method Man)

• Killah Priest - Heavy Mental (May 10, 1998)

02. "One Step" (featuring Tekitha)

05. "Cross My Heart" (featuring Inspectah Deck and GZA)

11. "If You Don't Know" (featuring Ol' Dirty Bastard)

• Sunz of Man - The Last Shall Be First (July 21, 1998)

04. "Flaming Swords"

11. "Collaboration '98" (featuring True Master and Method Man)

14. "For The Lust of Money/The Grandz"

17. "Next Up" (featuring Method Man)

18. "Intellectuals" (featuring Raekwon and U-God)

• Method Man - Tical 2000: Judgement Day (November 17, 1998)

04. "Dangerous Grounds" (featuring Street Life)

06. "Sweet Love" (featuring Cappadonna and Street Life)

08. "Torture"

16. "Party Crasher"

The version of this song that appears on the album is actually a remix by RZA. True Master provided the original beat, but it was later replaced. In an interview, Method Man expressed his wish to have the album released with the original True Master beat once all the copies of the first retail pressings were sold. The full instrumental of the original version of "Party Crasher" is available on a white label release of instrumentals from Tical 2000: Judgement Day.

17. "Grid Iron Rap" (featuring Street Life)

23. "Killin' Fields" (featuring Cho-Flo)

1999[link]

• Ol' Dirty Bastard - Nigga Please (September 14, 1999)

12. "All In Together Now"

• Inspectah Deck - Uncontrolled Substance (October 5, 1999)

08. "Longevity" (featuring U-God)

11. "Lovin' You" (featuring La the Darkman)

13. "R.E.C. Room"

• U-God - Golden Arms Redemption (October 5, 1999)

02. "Turbulence"

04. "Dat's Gangsta"

07. "Rumble" (featuring Leatha Face, Inspectah Deck and Method Man)

2000[link]

• Tony Touch - The Piece Maker (April 18, 2000)

05. Wu-Tang Clan - "The Abduction"

• Afu-Ra - Body of the Life Force (October 10, 2000)

04. "Big Acts, Little Acts" (featuring GZA)

2001[link]

• Various artists - Oz (soundtrack) (January 9, 2001)

03. Wu-Tang Clan - "What You In Fo'"

• Cappadonna - The Yin and the Yang (April 3, 2001)

02. "Super Model" (featuring Ghostface Killah)

• Gravediggaz - Nightmare in A-Minor (April 9, 2002)

03. "Burn Baby Burn"

14. "Man Only Fears" (featuring ShoGun Assasson)

19. "Nightmare In A-Minor" (featuring 4th Disciple and Beretta 9)

• Various artists - Wu-Chronicles, Chapter 2

08. Inspectah Deck, Leatha Face and U-God - "Rumble"

10. Leatha Face and U-God - "To The Rescue"

• RZA - Digital Bullet (August 28, 2001)

09. "La Rhumba" (featuring Method Man, Killa Sin and Beretta 9)

• Wu-Tang Clan - Iron Flag (December 18, 2001)

07. "Ya'll Been Warned"

2002[link]

• Afu-Ra - Life Force Radio (May 21, 2002)

16. "Dangerous Language" (featuring RZA)

• Busta Rhymes - It Ain't Safe No More (November 26, 2002)

18. "Till It's Gone"

2003[link]

• 9th Prince - Granddaddy Flow (May 28, 2003)

11. "Slang Killaz" (featuring Killarmy)

• RZA - Birth of a Prince (October 7, 2003)

05. "Fast Cars" (featuring Ghostface Killah)

2004[link]

• Ghostface Killah - The Pretty Toney Album (January 25, 2004)

02. "Biscuits" (featuring Trife)

• Masta Killa - No Said Date (June 6, 2004)

09. "Secret Rivals" (featuring Killah Priest and Method Man)

13. "Queen"

15. "Silverbacks" (featuring Inspectah Deck and GZA)

2005[link]

• Black Rob - The Black Rob Report (October 18, 2005)

12. "You Know What" (featuring Louis Farrakhan)

2007[link]

• Cilvaringz - I

12. "Damascus"

2008[link]

• GZA - Pro Tools

3. "Alphabets"

9. "Paper Plates"

This track was wrongfully credited to The RZA but was confirmed being produced by True Master.^[2]

2009[link]

• Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II

17. "Fat Lady Sings"

This track was wrongfully credited to The RZA but was confirmed being produced by True Master.^[3]

2010[link]

• KRS-One - Meta-Historical

entire album

• 9th Prince - One Man Army

13. "Prince Of The Empire State"

Appearances as a rapper[link]

1993[link]

• Guru presents Ill Kid Records (1993)

07. True Master - "Who's the Truest"

1995[link]

• Guru - Jazzmatazz, Vol. 2: The New Reality (July 18, 1995)

08. "Medicine" (featuring Ini Kamoze and True Master)

1997[link]

• Gravediggaz - The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel October 14, 1997

12. "Hidden Emotions" (featuring True Master)

1998[link]

• Sunz of Man - The Last Shall Be First July 21, 1998

11. "Collaboration '98" (featuring True Master and The Method Man)

2006[link]

• RZA - Afro Samurai OST

15. "Take Sword Part II" (featuring 60 Second Assassin)

2008[link]

• GZA - Pro Tools

10. "Columbian Ties" (featuring True Master)

2010[link]

• KRS-One - Meta-Historical

07. "Knowledge Reigns Supreme" (featuring True Master)

19. "He's Us" (featuring True Master)

References[link]

External links[link]

• True Master on Myspace