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Hitler's Hit List A look at evolution and bigotry
In Vienna from 1900 to 1918, a renegade Catholic monk, Adolf Lanz (nom de
plume Lanz von Liebenfels), gave the Manichaean* cosmology a secular form.
In preaching to his sect, The New Order of Templars, in his monthly journal
Ostara and in his book Theozoology, Lanz taught that in the beginning there
had been two earthly races: the Aryan* Heroes (Asings) and the Animal People
(Apes). The Aryans were the earthly equivalent of the Manichaean light; they
had been a divine race endowed with supremely intelligent, electronic minds,
blond, blue-eyed beauty, and creativity.
The Animal People were the worldly counterparts of the Manichaean darkness; they had been a demonic
race cursed with stupidity (except in the art of deception, in which they excelled),
gorilla-like ugliness, and the urge to destroy. At some early time, the Apes began to envy
and hate the Asings. They pondered methods of destroying the Aryans and decided to attack
the superior race through miscegenation. Conveniently, the Aryan women had a fatal
susceptibility to the Apes. (Lanz insisted that the story of the temptation of Eve in
Genesis was an esoteric account of her seduction by one of the monsters.) After several
centuries of such interbreeding, the original Asings and Animals disappeared. Now the
earth was populated by mixed races, which could be ranked as higher or lower according to
the proportions of Aryan and Ape blood that they possessed, approximately as follows:
Species Blood Mixture
| Nordic(blond, blue-eyed) | Close to pure Aryan |
| Germanic(brown hair, blue-eyed, or less desirable,
brown-eyed) |
Predominantly Aryan |
| Mediterranean (white but swarthy) |
Slight Aryan preponderance |
| Slavic (white but degenerative bone structure) |
Close to Aryan, half-Ape |
| Oriental |
Slight Ape preponderance |
| Black African |
Predominantly Ape |
| Jewish (fiendish skull) |
Close to pure Ape |
—from The Hitler Movement, p. 107
*Manichaeanism: a religious philosophy taught from the third to seventh
centuries A.D. by the Persian Manes (or Manichaeus) and his followers, combining
Zoroastrian, Gnostic Christian, and pagan elements, and based on the doctrine
of the contending principles of good (light, God, the soul) and evil (darkness,
Satan, the body).
**Aryanism: belief in the past existence of the hypothetical Aryan race supposedly
possessing a superior civilization. (Aryan has no validity as a racial term, although so
used notoriously by the Nazis to mean "a Caucasian of non-Jewish descent.")
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