herrenvolk
See also: Herrenvolk
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From German Herrenvolk.
Noun
herrenvolk (plural herrenvolker)
- A master race, especially with reference to Nazi ideology. [from 20th c.]
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 59:
- ‘In their position halfway between the blacks and the white Herrenvolk, they are bound to be unstable, they are petty bourgeois to the core, all of them.’
- 1954, Doris Lessing, A Proper Marriage, HarperPerennial 1995, p. 59:
Translations
master race
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