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‖ Herrenvolk|ˈhɛrənfɔlk, -fəʊk|
Also h-.
[G., master-race.]
The Nazi conception of the German people as born to mastery; also transf. as an appellation of other ‘superior’ groups. Also attrib. or as adj.
1940New Statesman 17 Feb. 198/1 Show how German industry can enjoy prosperity without rearmament and no German worker will accept the starvation wages of a Herrenvolk pursuing the mirage of a closed imperialism. 1941Amer. Guardian 15 Oct. 6/1 Hitler's race program was stolen from the White Trash Herrenvolk of Dixie. 1941M. Treadgold We couldn't leave Dinah xii. 184 The representative of the Herrenvolk nodded. 1941H. G. Wells You can't be too Careful v. ii. 245 A people..who were united in their dislike to the German herrenvolk. 1941D. Wilson Germany's ‘New Order’ 22 A Herrenvolk to dominate other peoples. 1943W. S. Churchill End of Beginning 103 Forms of warfare which, according to the German view, should be the strict monopoly of the Herrenvolk. 1944G. B. Shaw Everybody's Political What's What? x. 82 Nations each of which regards itself as The Chosen Race or Herrenvolk appointed by God to own and rule all the others. 1944H. G. Wells '42 to '44 187 The evil suggestion of inherently inferior peoples, predestined hewers of wood and drawers of the water for some imaginary Herrenvolk. 1947Penguin New Writing XXXI. 157 He referred to them [sc. Sinhalese] in their presence as ‘wogs’..and forced them to admit his herrenvolk creed. 1958Listener 9 Oct. 566/2 The Herrenvolk ideas, against which so many of us..fought and suffered during the seven terrible years of the war. 1960Guardian 28 June 10/5 A..Portuguese..cursing an African..in that unmistakable way which those who know Africa cannot fail to recognise—the herrenvolk attitude. 1964Punch 1 July 31/3 Brutality and herrenvolk arrogance. |