SLAVS, GOTHS AND IRANIANS: THE THEORY OF THE NORDIC "HERRENSCHICHT" AND CROAT RACIAL ORIGINS IN THE NDH Cover Image

SLAVS, GOTHS AND IRANIANS: THE THEORY OF THE NORDIC "HERRENSCHICHT" AND CROAT RACIAL ORIGINS IN THE NDH
SLAVS, GOTHS AND IRANIANS: THE THEORY OF THE NORDIC "HERRENSCHICHT" AND CROAT RACIAL ORIGINS IN THE NDH

Author(s): Nevenko Bartulin
Subject(s): WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Matica hrvatska Daruvar
Keywords: Nordic race; Aryans; Croats; race theory; ideal type; ruling class; nobility;

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses race theory in the Independent State of Croatia in regard to the question of the ethnolinguistic-racial origin of the early medieval Croats. While there was debate in the NDH on whether the proto-Croats were specifically Slavs, Iranians or Goths in an ethnolinguistic sense, there was a general academic and ideological consensus that, in a racial sense, they were a ruling class of Nordic-Aryan origin. This topic is analysed within a broader European historical and ideological context, including the question of the position of National Socialist race theory toward Croats and other Slavic peoples.

  • Issue Year: IV/2019
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 275-306
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: English
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