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  1. Untermenschnoun

    An inferior person; a subhuman.

  2. Etymology: From Untermensch, from unter + Mensch.

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  1. Untermensch

    Untermensch (German pronunciation: [ˈʔʊntɐˌmɛnʃ] (listen), lit. 'underman', 'sub-man', 'subhuman'; plural: Untermenschen) is a Nazi term for non-Aryan people they deem as inferior, who were often referred to as "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mainly ethnic Poles, Serbs, and later also Russians). The term was also applied to mixed race and black people. Jewish, Polish and Romani people, along with the physically and mentally disabled, as well as homosexuals and political dissidents, and on rare instances, POWs from Western Allied armies, were to be exterminated in the Holocaust. According to the Generalplan Ost, the Slavic population of East-Central Europe was to be reduced in part through mass murder in the Holocaust, with a majority expelled to Asia and used as slave labor in the Reich. These concepts were an important part of the Nazi racial policy.

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  1. Untermensch

    Untermensch is a term that became infamous when the Nazi racial ideology used it to describe "inferior people", especially "the masses from the East," that is Jews, Gypsies, Armenians, and Slavic peoples including Poles, Serbs, Belarusians, Russians and Rusyns. Jewish people were to resettled and when that proved impossible be exterminated in Holocaust while according to Generalplan Ost, most of the Slavs from East-Central Europe were destined to be removed from European territory under German control through murder and ethnic cleansing. The policy could be applied inconsistently or ignored completely.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of untermensch in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of untermensch in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5


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  • John Wildy
    John Wildy
    Inferior, sub human, below the level of humanity but not necessarily on racial grounds.
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