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OCR: While cond lemning other cuitures and races the Nazis giorified people who em bodied an Aryan racial ideal. This ideal featured such traits as tall physicai height, biond hair blue eyes and fair skin Aithough this idealization was based largely on literary sources and folklore the Nazis considered Aryans to be the only suitable people to be members of the German "master race Non -Aryans (particularly Jews, Gypsies, Slavs and Biacks) were regarded as being less than human and threat to Aryan "racial purity its original meaning, Aryan designated any person who spoke an opii European language The Nazi adaptation of this term was originated in the 19th century when racist scientists began use distinguish northern Europeans from others whom they considered to - racially inferior emning Cultures ...