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The Racial Elements of European History
A study of the racial origins of the European peoples, by one of the pioneers of racial science. Günther examines the physical and mental characteristics of the five basic sub-races of Europe, as well as the influence of racial strains from outside Europe. He examines the development of the European races in prehistory, with especial reference to the Nordic. After examining contemporary Europe from the racial perspective and an anthropological view of history, he closes with a rousing chapter on the Nordic as an ideal.
280 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1924
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Hans F.K. Günther
18 books21 followersa German race researcher and eugenicist known as Race Günther (Rassengünther) or Race Pope (Rassenpapst) in the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich.
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August 14, 2013
In my opinion Günther makes a plausible case for his claims and combined with Why Civilizations Self-Destruct by Elmer Pendell gives valuable background information on the rise and fall of civilizations. This will then be a great lead into The Nordish Quest by Richard McCulloch for real world solutions.
December 12, 2024
A beautiful book by the Third Reich's most notable Nordicist! The book is focused around the Nordic ideal, and explains the differences of the European races in detail. Günther ignores linguistics, and his book strictly observes phenotype. Parts of the book speak about the Nordic Race in history, as well as other world races - 'racial strains from outside Europe'. I love what Günther had to say about persia, close with other prominent European anthropologists of his time. Interestingly, Günther praised Iranian civilization even after the Islamic conquest (what he describes as "a wave of Oriental blood"), I didn't expect the unique angle from a Nordicist.
July 15, 2024
Took too long to finish something this short.
September 27, 2020
Liberals hold the belief that racism starts wars, or at least has been a major instigator of conflicts throughout history, yet liberals also hold the belief that different races need to be living amongst each other, mixing with each other. Liberals say mixing the races will end all war, and remove the likelihood of identity oppositions and blood-shed and such, right? Now, this is a contradiction clearly. But for those who can’t see, ill outline and describe why. It’s painfully obvious. If, as they claim, conflict won’t happen in a one world communal cesspit where everybody is race mixed, then that means everybody is everybody, and nobody is anybody. It means diversity won’t actually exist because everyone will be well-behaved consumer-culture bipeds without any original thought, adherence to their unique heritage, or connection with a particular ethnic tribe of belonging.
Hans Gunther’s work describes the recurring biological traits in the different racial categories. The book cites these (well known and obvious) racial physical traits which make Italians identifiable from Anglo-saxons for example. It’s a book that frequently mentions archeological findings (cranium measurements), anthropology patterns (ancient Macedonia for example, was ethnically more Nordic than neighboring regions), and how such biological phenomenon arises in the first place.
Hans Gunther was of course, a national socialist scientist, but nonetheless a great scientist. Let us not forget that Germany has fostered some of the world’s most brilliant men and women involved in the arts and sciences. During WW2’s final phases, these brilliant German scientists under the U.S. Military’s “operation Paperclip” fled Europe, and basically betrayed the Axis-Powers to offer their scientific discoveries to assist the American military-science departments, who at the time were struggling to achieve things which the Germans had already accomplished or invented.
This book is about the five major races that comprise the European racial category of a larger Homo Sapien spectrum, also including Asians, Hispanics, and Negroids. Homo Sapien Europous includes; the Nordics, the Latins, the Slavs, the Alpine race, and Germanic. These five categories can be further specified into yet more sub-categories, all based on more specific physical trait patterns of said region, and of course their neuro-linguistic tendencies and culturally retained identities, whether they be conscious or unconscious.
One of the most suppressed and covered-up books to circulate literary-circles in our time, or in our parent’s time, and doubtless still in our children’s time, as The Left seeks to stifle and suppress the public’s justified interest in age old questions of “what are we? How are the races anatomically different? Are we neurologically different?” The book is insightful to the point where it awakens oneself to certain hard truths which have been hushed-up and covered-up by everyday Pop-Culture liberalism, which of course, censors and controls what we’re allowed to even come into contact with.
You will not see this book for sale at Powell’s, or Barnes and Noble. It is one of my favorite books because it confirms what the observant mind typically comes to realize throughout the course of a lifetime by witnessing the decline and degeneration of modern Western countries. The book also explains cranium size comparisons, for example, Asians have 10% more gray-matter neuron content than the average Negroid brain. Asians also possess larger temporal lobes than any other ethnic group.
Hans Gunther’s work describes the recurring biological traits in the different racial categories. The book cites these (well known and obvious) racial physical traits which make Italians identifiable from Anglo-saxons for example. It’s a book that frequently mentions archeological findings (cranium measurements), anthropology patterns (ancient Macedonia for example, was ethnically more Nordic than neighboring regions), and how such biological phenomenon arises in the first place.
Hans Gunther was of course, a national socialist scientist, but nonetheless a great scientist. Let us not forget that Germany has fostered some of the world’s most brilliant men and women involved in the arts and sciences. During WW2’s final phases, these brilliant German scientists under the U.S. Military’s “operation Paperclip” fled Europe, and basically betrayed the Axis-Powers to offer their scientific discoveries to assist the American military-science departments, who at the time were struggling to achieve things which the Germans had already accomplished or invented.
This book is about the five major races that comprise the European racial category of a larger Homo Sapien spectrum, also including Asians, Hispanics, and Negroids. Homo Sapien Europous includes; the Nordics, the Latins, the Slavs, the Alpine race, and Germanic. These five categories can be further specified into yet more sub-categories, all based on more specific physical trait patterns of said region, and of course their neuro-linguistic tendencies and culturally retained identities, whether they be conscious or unconscious.
One of the most suppressed and covered-up books to circulate literary-circles in our time, or in our parent’s time, and doubtless still in our children’s time, as The Left seeks to stifle and suppress the public’s justified interest in age old questions of “what are we? How are the races anatomically different? Are we neurologically different?” The book is insightful to the point where it awakens oneself to certain hard truths which have been hushed-up and covered-up by everyday Pop-Culture liberalism, which of course, censors and controls what we’re allowed to even come into contact with.
You will not see this book for sale at Powell’s, or Barnes and Noble. It is one of my favorite books because it confirms what the observant mind typically comes to realize throughout the course of a lifetime by witnessing the decline and degeneration of modern Western countries. The book also explains cranium size comparisons, for example, Asians have 10% more gray-matter neuron content than the average Negroid brain. Asians also possess larger temporal lobes than any other ethnic group.
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