Pan-Germanism punished non-members with contempt while Pan-Slavism assumed every Slav had the soul regardless

Evidence

Pan-Germanism showed itself somewhat superior in organizational theory, insofar as it shrewdly deprived the individual German of all these wondrous qualities if he did not adhere to the movement (thereby foreshadowing the spiteful contempt which Nazism later expressed for the non-Party members of the German people), whereas Pan-Slavism, absorbed deeply in its limitless speculations about the Slav soul, assumed that every Slav consciously or unconsciously possessed such a soul no matter whether he was properly organized or not. It needed Stalin’s ruthlessness to introduce into Bolshevism the same contempt for the Russian people that the Nazis showed toward the Germans. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 630

Categorization

• XREF: The Pan-German vs Pan-Slav contrast maps onto how exclusionary vs inclusionary nationalisms structure in-group/out-group membership — useful for later Islamophobia readings on who counts as Muslim.