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But dividing and polarizing during the Roman Era was not as profound a concept as that vision of a Nordic superman spawned in the mind of Nietzsche from whom Hitler extracted many of his social ideals.dividing and polarizing ------precedes the germans.
But Nietzsche was just one of a succession of German racial purists of note who expanded the false notion of race and who put Germanic types at the pinnacle of the racial domain.
The greatest contributor to concepts of national supremacism along with imperialism was ANCIENT ROME-----(a
But the mantle of Roman citizenship and the accompanying privileges were not restricted by race. A great slave gladiator could be made a citizen of the realm by showing his prowess as a fighter with many wins. The idea of attaching some genectic/racial component to establish some kind of racial hierarchy was not the specific agenda of those who ruled Rome back in the glory days.
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