Pan-nationalist thought denied that humanity as such commanded any loyalty.

Evidence

The following passage in Frymann, op. cit., p. 186, is characteristic: “We know our own people, its qualities and its shortcomings—mankind we do not know and we refuse to care or get enthusiastic about it. Where does it begin, where does it end, that we are supposed to love because it belongs to mankind…? Are the decadent or half-bestial Russian peasant of the mir, the Negro of East-Africa, the half-breed of German South-West Africa, or the unbearable Jews of Galicia and Rumania all members of mankind?…One can believe in the solidarity of the Germanic peoples—whoever is outside this sphere does not matter to us.” — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2425

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s toolkit theme of race-thinking and the construction of the ‘Other’ — the exclusion of non-Germanic peoples from moral consideration is the mechanism behind pan-movement membership.
• SEED: Angle: how ‘who counts as human’ gets delimited by pan-movements — the rhetorical move of listing excluded peoples as proof that ‘mankind’ is fictitious.