Hitler

[Joe King]

Hitler said the master race should have blond hair and blue eyes and average height... But wasn't Hitler short, with dark hair and brown eyes??

[MustafaTickl]

These twins think Herr Hitler got it right.

[BrainMonkeys]

Yup, he certainly was...and he was Austrian too. And there is the rumours of a Jewish family connection too.

Besides which, he was a megalomanical psychopath!

[ummmm]

He loved his opposite!

[surreyman]

Hitler was 5'8'' tall, which probably was average height a couple of generations ago and he had blue eyes so two out of three aint bad as Meatloaf might say.

[Homer55]

i tell you MustafaTickl, them twins be brainwashed, i saw a documentary on them and there just not right!

[Octavius]

It wasn't so much about looks but about ethnicity. It remains a mystery why Hitler and the Nazis/Neo-Nazis used the word 'Aryan' race to define their ideology of a master race that was non-Jewish caucasian, especially one of Nordic type.

The Aryan race is in fact a very ancient Indian or Inod-Iranian civilisation (Vedic Aryan). The theory of the Northern origins of the Aryans was particularly influential in Germany. It was widely believed that the Vedic Aryans were ethnically identical to the Goths, Vandals and other ancient Germanic peoples of the V�lkerwanderung. This idea was often intertwined with anti-Semitic ideas. The distinctions between the "Aryan" and "Semitic" peoples were based on linguistic and ethnic history. In this way Semitic peoples came to be seen as a foreign presence within "Aryan" societies, and the Semitic peoples were often pointed to as the cause of conversion and destruction of social order and values leading to culture and civilization's downfall by Nazi and Pre-Nazi theorists such as Alfred Rosenberg, Arthur de Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. According to the proto-Nazi and Nazi ideologists adherent to Ariosophy, the Aryan was a master race that built a civilization that dominated the world from Atlantis about ten thousand years ago.

Perhaps Hitler just had a thing for tall blonde musuclar young boys in tight shorts, or laderhousen.

[Grunty]

The Jewish connection mentioned by BrainMonkeys concerns Hitler's grandfather. This is interesting because the Nazis defined a Jew as a person who had a Jewish grandparent. Hitler's father, Alois Shicklgruber was born illegitimate. There were two people who could have been the father. One was Heidler, from whom Alois later took the name, which was mis-spelt as Hitler. The other was the son of a Jewish family where Alois' mother worked.

[shammydodger]

Grunty
Indeed. Alois did change his name to Hitler, a good 12 years afore Adolf was born. So, those who try to insist that Adolf Hitler was actually Adolf Schicklgruber (or the like) are p1ssing in the wind.

[charlatan53]

Did Hitler ever really say that? He envisioned a pure blooded race but I don't think even he would expect a nation of look-alikes.

[Octavius]

In his book, Mein Kampf, Hitler divides humans into categories based on physical appearance, establishing higher and lower orders, or types of humans. At the top, according to Hitler, is the Germanic man with his fair skin, blond hair and blue eyes. Hitler refers to this type of person as an Aryan. He asserts that the Aryan is the supreme form of human, or master race.

[Scylax]

Yes, Octavius, the ideal Germanic type was seen as
robust, athletic and handsome, like Joseph Goebbels.
Or maybe slim and abstemious, like Hermann Goering ?

Hitler's ideas about perfection were quickly realised when the SS showed themselves to be humane, self-effacing,
tolerant and kindly-disposed. There was much evidence
for this in Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen and
Ravensbruck. About 1000 other such places in the 3rd.
Reich were blessed with these paragons too.
Oh, lucky Germany, 1933 - 1945.