Nazi racial ideology demanded total inclusion or total exclusion, not plural hierarchy.
Evidence
It was probably one of the decisive ideological errors of Rosenberg, who fell from the Fuehrer’s favor and lost his influence in the movement to men like Himmler, Bormann, and even Streicher, that his Myth of the Twentieth Century admits a racial pluralism from which only the Jews were excluded. He thereby violated the principle that whoever is not included (“the Germanic people”) is excluded (“the mass of humanity”). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2688
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the binary inclusion/exclusion principle of Nazi racism — you are either Germanic or part of the excluded ‘mass of humanity.’
- XREF: This binary of inclusion/exclusion connects to the ‘Other’ construction toolkit and to how totalitarian ideology forbids intermediate categories — relevant to Islamophobia’s construction of the excluded other.