RE: news from the sky (question around background of the word 'aryan')

[eadingas]

For anyone interested in these things, I recommend a book I've been reading this holiday:
Rosa Dela Rose, Diccionario Critico de Mitos y Simbolos de Nazismo

http://www.agapea.com/Diccionario-cr...mo-n92820i.htm

I don't know what languages it's been translated into, except Polish, but among other things, it explains a lot about what Nazis thought when they said "Aryan", and why it could be perfectly acceptable for non-white, non-european people to be accepted as "Aryan".

[Persian Horseman]

just got back after a few days, noticed that the old thread was locked.
as the guy who first brought up the word "aryan" i want to say that all i was saying was things i had read in some history books which also matched the link that was given.

in no way do i support, like, or agree, blah blah blah etc with nazi/hitler/blah blah. i just mentioned that he also used the word aryan which happened to be what the iranians say they are.
Iran = land of aryans
plus, i think a bunch of them also ended up in northern india but dont know what happened to them.

[Elthore]

at least some discussion and info is better than none, what got me befuddled is what Persian Horseman mentioned in the other thread. He mentioned that the Aryan(speaking?) group of people came from the east, and split into 3. One being the fars, the others i cant recall(medes?), and one going to germany.

Its that last bit that gets me. I guess migrations happened all the time, but how come you dont hear of these guys doing anything special in northern europe? Im sure they would be talked about more if they were there, and because they would have been much different from the germanics.

From the sounds of things the debate here is wether these Aryans were anybody special, and they probably werent. Because, what is the reason that they were? (non-nazi proganda evidence preferably).


Sorry about that confusion, its entirely the cause of my own un-educatedness on the subject:
My original impression was that even their existence was simply nazi babble, but i guess they did exist, and were no one special. Thats what i get outta this.

[Elthore]

as well, i agree with 'we all need someone' in regards to that first link i posted. Those are probably just what ive seen refered to as eastern troops(osttruppen?), of the wehrmachtl; ill trained, unmotivated, forced troops of the conquered

[eadingas]

You have all the info you need in the wiki link provided in previous thread. "Aryan", originally, is just an old word for "Indoeuropean". So yes, they were "somebody special" - most of us in this meaning are "Aryan".