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Where did the Aryan obsession come from? (lemm.ee)

submitted 15 hours ago by [email protected] to c/askhistorians

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Yes, I'm asking about where Hitler got the idea, but also you can see it depicted in media from that era. The fit and beautiful blonde had been portrayed as the ideal and the desirable so much in things like the stereotypical surfer hunk, and Barbie and Ken, and the chain of blonde sex symbol has continued through today. Where did that start?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

At that time racial differences were a respected part of biomedical field

That's why also tried to come up with measurements for classification of people - like craniometry, in which the characteristics of the skull was measured

The idea was, that every race has different abilities and so on.

So at that time, they build up on some widely believed pseudo science