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Definition of Herrenvolk
1. Noun. A race that considers itself superior to all others and fitted to rule the others.
Definition of Herrenvolk
1. Noun. (context: Nazism) A master race. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Herrenvolk
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Herrenvolk
Literary usage of Herrenvolk
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. State of the Nation: South Africa 2003-2004 by John Daniel, Adam Habib, Roger Southall (2004)
"It was thus why some analysts described South Africa as an 'herrenvolk democracy' (Adam
1971), while it is that very democratic participation by the ..."
2. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"No Herrenvolk, but national equality and parity; Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité
among nations as among individuals. The Pan-Germans appeal in vain to history; ..."
3. Why We Went to War by Christian Frederick Gauss (1918)
""The Germans are a race of rulers, a Herrenvolk" Others, this means us, must be
taught to obey. "Constitutions," as a German has said, "are not for the ..."
4. Austria-Hungary: The Polyglot Empire by Wolf von Schierbrand (1917)
"The Magyars think of themselves always as a "Herrenvolk," a lordly race, one
which by reason of central geographical position, ..."
5. For the Right: Essays and Addreses by Members of the "Fight for Right Movement." by Fight for Right Movement, Francis Edward Younghusband, James Bryce Bryce, Henry John Newbolt, Maurice Henry Hewlett, Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, Gilbert Murray, Ramsay Muir, Frederick Pollock, Philip Henry Kerr Lothian, Frederick Whyte, Henry Wickham Stee (1918)
"... Germany should be supreme in the world, and based on the belief that Germans
are naturally a Herrenvolk, a race of rulers to whom all things are given. ..."
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