Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.4.4.13

SLAVS, GOTHS AND IRANIANS: THE THEORY OF THE NORDIC "HERRENSCHICHT" AND CROAT RACIAL ORIGINS IN THE NDH

Nevenko Bartulin orcid.org/0000-0003-4968-6982 ; Guilford Young College, Hobart, Australia

Abstract

This article analyses race theory in the Independent State of Croatia in regard to the question of the ethnolinguistic-racial origin of the early medieval Croats. While there was debate in the NDH on whether the proto-Croats were specifically Slavs, Iranians or Goths in an ethnolinguistic sense, there was a general academic and ideological consensus that, in a racial sense, they were a ruling class of Nordic-Aryan origin. This topic is analysed within a broader European historical and ideological context, including the question of the position of National Socialist race theory toward Croats and other Slavic peoples

Keywords

Nordic race, Aryans, Croats, race theory, ideal type, ruling class, nobility

Hrčak ID:

242709

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/242709

Publication date:

20.8.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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