According to Nazi ideology, an ideal "Aryan" was blond, blue-eyed with athletic features. The term is still tied to Nazi Germany, but its origin lies elsewhere. Like many Germans, Adolf Hitler had ...

PERHAPS no conclusion of comparative philology has received such unanimous indorsement and been regarded as so incontestable as that which designates the tablelands of Central Asia as the cradle of ...

Heinrich Heine, Germany’s poet who during his lifetime and after death was declared to be a Jew in spite of his Baptism and was denounced by German Nationalists, was not of Semitic origin, but of ...