<P> Nazi racial beliefs of the superiority of an Aryan master race arose from earlier proponents of a supremacist conception of race such as Arthur de Gobineau, who published a four - volume work titled An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (translated into German in 1897). Gobineau proposed that the Aryan race was superior, and urged the preservation of its cultural and racial purity . Gobineau later came to use and reserve the term Aryan only for the "German race" and described the Aryans as' la race germanique' . By doing so he presented a racist theory in which Aryans--that is Germans--were all that was positive . Houston Stewart Chamberlain's work The Foundations of the Nineteenth Century (1900), one of the first to combine Social Darwinism with antisemitism, describes history as a struggle for survival between the Germanic peoples and the Jews, whom he characterized as an inferior and dangerous group . The two - volume book Foundations of Human Hereditary Teaching and Racial Hygiene (1920--21) by Eugen Fischer, Erwin Baur, and Fritz Lenz, used pseudoscientific studies to conclude that the Germans were superior to the Jews intellectually and physically, and recommended eugenics as a solution . Madison Grant's work The Passing of the Great Race (1916) advocated Nordicism and proposed using a eugenic program to preserve the Nordic race . After reading the book, Hitler called it "my Bible". </P> <P> Racist author and Nordic supremacist Hans F.K. Günther who influenced Nazi ideology, wrote in his "Race Lore of German People" (Rassenkunde des deutschen Volkes) about the danger of "Slavic blood of Eastern race" mixing with the German and combined virulent nationalism with anti-semitism . Günther became an epitome of corrupt and politicized pseudo-science in post-war Germany Among the topics of his research were attempts to prove that Jewish people had an unpleasant "hereditary smell". While one of the most prominent Nazi writers, Günther still wasn't considered the most "cutting edge" by Nazis . </P> <P> The July 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring--written by Ernst Rüdin and other theorists of "racial hygiene"--established "Genetic Health Courts" which decided on compulsory sterilization of "any person suffering from a hereditary disease ." These included, for the Nazis, those suffering from "Congenital Mental Deficiency", schizophrenia, "Manic - Depressive Insanity", "Hereditary Epilepsy", "Hereditary Chorea" (Huntington's), Hereditary Blindness, Hereditary Deafness, "any severe hereditary deformity", as well as "any person suffering from severe alcoholism". Further modifications of the law enforced sterilization of the "Rhineland bastards" (children of mixed German and African parentage). </P> <P> The Nazi Party wanted to increase birthrates of those who were classified as racially elite . When the Party gained power in 1933, one of their first actions was to pass the Law for the Encouragement of Marriage . This law stated that all newly married couples of the Aryan race could receive a government loan . This loan was not simply paid back, rather a portion of it would be forgiven after the birth of each child . The purpose of this law was very clear and simple: to encourage newly weds to have as many children as they could, so that the Aryan population would grow . </P>

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