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  • noun Plural form of Untermensch.

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Examples

  • Such language — just like Hitler's use of the term Untermenschen (sub-humans) — was the first step toward justifying mass murder.

    Tales From The Crypt 2008

  • The chosen ones were the Herrenvolk and all others were called Untermenschen or subhumans.

    WAR ON IMMIGRANTS 2006

  • Accumulated Israeli political resentment against world condemnation for their war crimes found an emotional outlet by identifying with Netanyahu's antics: His relentless brutality against the 'Untermenschen' of Palestine and his willingness to openly defy the US Administration, even as Israel extracts $3 billion dollars a year from the Americans, re-enforces their sense of superiority.

    iToot Stream Haitham Sabbah 2010

  • That hatred encompasses not only Jewish and Christian "Untermenschen", but "the secular Muslim, the westernised Arab, the liberated woman ... the queers, the junkies, the intellectuals who must be crushed by any means necessary".

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Maya Jaggi 2010

  • On the Eastern Front, Mr. Roberts provides ample evidence of the Third Reich's willingness to place racial goals of slaughtering Untermenschen "subhumans" ahead of sound military and political requirements.

    Hell's Ethos Jonathan W. Jordan 2011

  • This is a great source of annoyance to the Poles, because Poland suffered greatly during World War II -- Hitler considered the Poles to be Untermenschen, less than human, and ordered his killing squads to “send to death mercilessly and without compassion, men, women, and children of Polish derivation and language.”

    Giving Poland its due 2010

  • A funeral service, an Irish wake where we the Untermenschen will be buried so that others may live.

    A Parellel Universe 2008

  • The book dealt with the numbers and statistics used by the Nazi\'s (and their helpers from all over Europe) who came to see both their dehumanized Jewish and non-Jewish Untermenschen compatriots from across the continent as statistics to be calculated or canceled out.

    WHETHER DISCUSSING DEVIL'S ARITHMATIC or WONDERING ABOUT PERIODIC TABLES, ISRAEL and PALESTINE are FASCINATED BY NUMBERS 2008

  • You, the poor Schleps who want to talk politics are Untermenschen who do not know.

    "For Republicans, there's only one candidate of hope: Hillary Rodham Clinton." Ann Althouse 2008

  • No pity or hate for the Untermenschen, just a benign acceptance of their fate.

    A Parellel Universe 2008

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