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  • Well, Herr Barbour, go down the road in plainclothes and try to get one single black man to shake your hand and come away with a clear notion of who the untermensch is ...

    DNC: Barbour 'defended the indefensible' 2010

  • These peoples were labeled 'untermensch,' the German word for sub-human.

    The Untermensch Syndrome: Israel's Moral Decay 2006

  • I am your "untermensch" - a trace of filth to be scraped off

    slackbastard 2008

  • I am your "untermensch" - a trace of filth to be scraped off

    slackbastard 2008

  • I am your "untermensch" - a trace of filth to be scraped off

    slackbastard 2008

  • I am your "untermensch" - a trace of filth to be scraped off

    slackbastard 2008

  • It is the same "untermensch" argument that claimed that dark smooth skinned apes purchased in Africa were not human beings, but cattle, and that red skinned long haired apes found in the plans and forests of North America were not human being either, but vermin.

    Discourse.net: Today's Sickening Calculation 2009

  • Whenever it does we have terrible travesties of both scientific method and ultimately humanity (vide. the concept of the "untermensch" and the horrors of science gone mad in the 3rd Reich).

    Scientific Activists in Oxford Still Making Headlines Nick Anthis 2006

  • Most of them are hard-wired to regard their brand as superior and the followers of other beliefs as 'untermensch'.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Most of them are hard-wired to regard their brand as superior and the followers of other beliefs as 'untermensch'.

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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  • "Then they can have their competitions in their silent hundreds and not worry about being morally soiled by all of those millions of dollars that we untermenschen bring to these events."

    - The New York Times, Novermber 1, 2007

    November 2, 2007