Definitions

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  • noun derogatory An inferior person; a subhuman.

Etymologies

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From German Untermensch, from unter ("under, below") + Mensch ("person, human").

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Examples

  • [The term Untermensch was soon to embrace a whole philosophy toward the Russians, and in particular toward prisoners of war and forced labour.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated.

    Latest News 2009

  • I'm also suprised he didn't call the riders themselves "Untermensch" because that's what he seems to be getting at here.

    Keep It Simple, Stupid: Go Fixie! BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • That the reporting of hundreds of deaths in Lebanon has received vastly less coverage from an anti "Untermensch" media than they have given to the thousands murdered in Kosovo under NATO rule.

    Universal Values Garry 2006

  • And yet for all their efforts Nazi scientists were unable to identify the "Untermensch" in a definitive manner that was not based on birth records -- put otherwise there was no clear biological distinction between Untermenschen and Aryans.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • Note: 'Untermensch', like a lot of ideas attributed to the Nazi's, was stolen from others, either American author Lothrop Stoddard or German novelist and poet Theodor Fontane.

    Ride Fast & Shoot Straight 2009

  • The nazis had strict rules on sex: Men could have sex with the "Untermensch", or "subhuman" females, such as Jews, Poles, or other Slavic races, gypsies, and the military bordellos were staffed with them, but women not.

    Vive Le Canada - All Stories - Vive Le Canada 2009

  • The Reich Race and Settlement Head Office in 1942 distributed a pamphlet "Untermensch" of which 3,860,995 copies were printed.

    Progressive Bloggers 2009

  • Raevmo, did you believe Hitler when he called Jews Untermensch or only when you find cherry picked quotes designed make a master manipulator look like something he was not?

    Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose? 2008

  • Raevmo, did you believe Hitler when he called Jews Untermensch or only when you find cherry picked quotes designed make a master manipulator look like something he was not?

    Darwin Strips Reality of Purpose? 2008

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