Kebijakan-kebijakan Nazi melabelkan para pemukim berabad-abad di kawasan Jerman yang bukan etnis Jerman seperti Yahudi (dimengerti dalam teori ras Nazi sebagai bangsa "Semitik" asal Syam), Romani (juga dikenal sebagai Gipsi, bangsa "Indo-Arya" asal Anak Benua India), bersama dengan sebagian besar Slavia (utamanya etnis Polandia, Serbia, Rusia dll), dan seluruh orang kulit berwarna lainnya (dengan beberapa pengecualian) sebagai sub-manusia non-Arya rendahan (contohnya non-Nordik, di bawah kesalahkaprahan Nazi dari istilah "Arya") dalam sebuah hierarki ras yang menempatkan Herrenvolk ("ras unggul") dari Volksgemeinschaft ("komunitas masyarakat") di bagian puncak.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
^Operation Barbarossa: Ideology and Ethics against Human Dignity, by André Mineau, (Rodopi, 2004) page 180
^The Czechs under Nazi Rule: The Failure of National Resistance, 1939–1942, Vojtěch Mastný, Columbia University Press [halaman dibutuhkan]
^Hitler's Home Front: Wurttemberg Under the Nazis, Jill Stephenson p. 135, Other non-'Aryans' included Slavs, Blacks and Roma .
^The Politics of Fertility in Twentieth-Century Berlin - Page 118 Annette F. Timm - 2010 The Nazis' singleminded desire to "purify" the German race through the elimination of non-Aryans (particularly Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs)
^The Holocaust and History The Known, the Unknown, the Disputed, and the Reexamined Edited by Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck, Indiana University Press page 59 "Pseudoracial policy of Third Reich(...)Gypsies, Slavs, blacks, Mischlinge, and Jews are not Aryans."
^Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource and Document Collection Paul R. Bartrop, Steven Leonard Jacobs page 1160, "This strict dualism between the "racially pure" Aryans and all others—especially Jews and Slavs—led in Nazism to the radical outlawing of all "non-Aryans" and to their enslavement and attempted annihilation"
^World Fascism: A Historical Encyclopedia, Volume 1 Cyprian Blamires page 63 "the "racially pure" Aryans and all others—especially Jews and Slavs— led in Nazism to the radical outlawing of all "non-Aryans" and to their enslavement and attempted annihilation
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