RACIAL SUPREMACY IDEOLOGY HAS A LONG HISTORY

Mark Mazower, Hitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe (New York: Penguin Press, 2008) ("The only modern element in Nazi policy was their commitment to the 'science' of race. Leaving what they saw as the half-hearted misconceptions of the Kaiser's prewar nationalities policy behind them, they wanted to turn race and biology into the guiding principle for administration. 'Our mission is not Germanise the East in the old sense--bringing the German language and laws to those living there,' stated Himmler, 'but rather to ensure that in the East dwell only men with truly German, Germanic blood.'  "This commitment to a strict policy of racial differences broke new ground. Many European countries before the Nazis dreamed of rescuing 'their' minorities by conquering their neighbours' land. In the nineteenth century, Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania all aspired to fulfill their national mission through expansion, and exactly the same logic had led Polish politicians after 1918 to fight the Ukrainians and Lithuanians for as much land as possible. The historian A. J. P. Taylor once mischievously remarked that 'in international affairs there was nothing wrong with Hitler except that he as a German'. From this point of view, he was right. Taylor laughed at those who described the German dictator as a man of unique wickedness. But what was important about Hitler was not his wickedness; it was his commitment to biological racism." Id. at 181-182. Charlottesville, August 11-12, 2017?).