herrenvolk
IPA: hˈɛrʌnvˈoʊk
noun
- A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.
- Alternative letter-case form of herrenvolk [A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology.]
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Examples of "herrenvolk" in Sentences
- Technical point, but a herrenvolk democracy is still a democracy.
- The President was in fine voice yesterday, and his soaring words put steel back in the spine of our wavering herrenvolk!
- It lumped all whites together worker and employer, liberal and racist, communist and capitalist - under the 'herrenvolk' label.
- The day should not be approached with an attitude of "herrenvolk superiority", he said, but in a spirit of humble gratitude for
- South African Communist Party national chairman Joe Slovo suggested the CP's separate Afrikaner state could be equated with the "herrenvolk" concept of Nazi Germany.
- Not only will it harm their democratic culture, but it will also reduce the rich and complex meaning of Judaism and Jewish identity into a cramped, Boer-style herrenvolk provincialism.
- As another footnote we should, of course, zero in on the fundamentally anti-democratic nature of the "herrenvolk" concept that lies at the heart of the transformation of the idea of Israel from being a nation-state to being a "node-state."
- If we reject the herrenvolk idea [the idea of a pure, unadulterated race] and the principle that the white man cannot remain baas, if the franchise is to be extended to the non-Europeans, and if the non-Europeans are given representation and the vote and the non-Europeans are developed on the same basis as the Europeans, how can the European remain baas
- If we reject the herrenvolk idea [the idea of a pure, unadulterated race] and the principle that the white man cannot remain baas, if the franchise is to be extended to the non-Europeans, and if the non-Europeans are given representation and the vote and the non-Europeans are developed on the same basis as the Europeans, how can the European remain baas ...
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