Der Fuehrer - Hitler's Rise to Power (1944) - Heiden

236 DER FUEHRERFor always, and everywhere on earth, we find qualities typical of alike race, even where a blood relationship is unproved and perhapsimprobable. Thus, everywhere on earth there is a generically similartype of the noble and most gifted: 'Is this family of men united by bloodties, is it unified? I do not know, and I do not care; no relationshipcreates a closer bond than elective affinity.' So speaks an Englishmanwho grew up as half a Frenchman and became a German.Chamberlain designates this highest type by the old and much-usedterm 'Aryan.' To the question what this is, he gives a startling answer:'What is an Aryan? One must know nothing of ethnography to venture adefinite answer to this question.' It is absurd to speak of an Aryan bloodcommunity: 'The peoples we have learned to combine under the nameof Aryan vary greatly from one another; they show the most variedcranial structure, and different colors of skin, eyes, and hair; andsupposing there had been a common Indo-European mother race, whatargument can we offer against the constantly accumulating evidence tothe effect that other, totally unrelated, types have from time immemorialbeen represented in our present so-called Aryan nations? At most wemight call individuals, but never a whole people, Aryan. Linguisticrelationship offers no compelling proof of like blood.'Chamberlain considers race relationship higher and more profoundthan blood relationship; it is a relationship of souls, based on affinities,on similarity of character and manner of thought, despite variation inphysical characteristics: 'In this sense the Indo-European Aryansunquestionably constitute a family.' And: 'The Germanic peoples belongto that group of most gifted people which we are accustomed todesignate as Aryans.' The true Aryan type is not frequent in the socalledAryan nations, and the task is to make it frequent and dominant:'Even if it were proved that in the past there never was an Aryan race,we want there to be one in the future.'Let there be an intellectual brotherhood of the most gifted and strongwilled;let there be an order of Supermen, distributed throughout theearth, permeating and leading the so-called Germanic nations andthrough them dominating the whole earth.