Indo-Germanic People

By prof. Wolfgang Schulz
From Basic Ideas of National-Socialist Cultural Policy
The distribution of the great races around the end of the Stone Age corresponded, despite numerous later displacements and obliterations, basically to the picture that today still shows the racial variants in Europe’s population, on the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea and in Asia Minor.
In Europe’s north, in southern Scandinavia and in Northern Germany, we have before us the core region of the Nordic race and of the Falic [fälische] race closely related to it. From the east, the Alpine race juts like a wedge deep into Europe. The Dinaric race stretches from the Pyrenees through the Alps and Balkans, and the Near Eastern race, probably originally closely related to it, through Asia Minor and the Caucasus. Behind this wall, which in earlier times was situated in front of the great mountain chain and was then pushed away under the pressure from the north, lie in the west around the Mediterranean Sea the folks of the Mediterranean race, in the orient the folks of oriental (Semitic) race closely related to them.
European peasant cultures, into which the Late Stone Age in Europe flowed, are already involved in the tense relationships between the Nordic (and Falic), the Alpine, Dinaric and Mediterranean races. But the old High Cultures lie in the orient. In Mesopotamia, on the Nile, on the Indus, the peasant settlement around the city’s castle was expanded already in the early historical period, that means in part even before the fourth millennium B.C., and a cultural movement of urbanization emanates from here which slowly but steadily over the course of millennia spreads through the Mediterranean lands to the distant west and even more slowly toward the north, only that the North resists it the most stubbornly, and up to the beginning of the German Middle Ages successfully.
The plough culture, the steer as work animal, the milk economy and the related customs, the foundations of the peasantry, however, despite their great age and their rich development in the orient, must not have their origin there, they can also already have it in the European north. The oldest plough comes from the fourth millennium B.C. and was found in Eastern Frisia.
Seats and Wanderings of the Indo-Germanic Folks
(According to Bruno R. Schultz)
Border of the Kentom and Satem folks
Europe’s Late Stone Age peasant cultures and the orient’s urban cultures show clear signs of torpidity when the Indo-Germanic folks, coming from Europe’s north, themselves grown upon peasant foundation, spread over them, advance on daring treks into the deepest southeast and complete their world-historical foundations.
The Indians and the Iranians (Persians and related ethnic groups), the Scythians in southern Russia. And later the Prussians, Latvians, Slavs belong to the eastern branch of a great family of folks whose western branch is formed by the Greeks, Thracians and Phryger, Italiker Celts, Illyrians and Germanic folks. One classifies all of the them together according to both their must distantly separated representatives, the Indians and Germanic people, by the artificial name coined merely from the language tree, of Indo-Germanic.
But not only by language, rather also by race, they originally formed a unity. The oldest testaments of the individual folks, even in the new residences, always show basically the same racial traits, at least for the upper stratum. They are the traits of the Nordic race. The ideal of beauty of the oldest poets of these folks is in agreement, and the artists portray it in their pictorial works even into the late period.
India, Iran, Armenia, Asia Minor, Greece, Italy, Spain, Britain, however, were first conquered by these folks. The Italiker came from beyond the Alps, the Greeks as well from the north, the Phryger from beyond the Bosphorus, to their later residences. Still in Herodof s time, in Russia merely the west and the south belonged to the Scythians. The treks of these folks show predominantly a spread from north toward south, from northwest toward southeast.
The older, still continuous settlement region before the swarming out of the individual folks, we hence imagine along a central line from the Baltic to the Black Sea. The name Nordic race is hence already sufficiently justified from this, since the core folk of Indo-Germanic man, which embodies this race the purest, yes, almost exclusively, and already possesses a significant, firmly solidified culture, according to these facts must have stemmed from Europe’s north. During their spread, however, these folks absorb into their development other, old indigenous population, presumably racially and linguistically in part more diverse than themselves, permeate them or subjugate them as well. That is the chief impulse for the formation of the individual lndo-Germanic folks.
Already early, these folks fell into two groups, and indeed according to language and culture.
In the northwest group, “hundred” is “kentom” and “horse” is “ekwos”, in the southeast group these words are satem and aswas, which means that a palatial plosive (k) has regularly become a palatial sibilant (s). The southeast group is the younger one. Furthermore, the folks in the northwest group are more settled peasants, those in the southeast group on the open steppe in part wandering herdsmen and horsemen. The split into both these groups presumably resulted, because the eastern one, the more it pushed into the Eastern European low plain and steppe, was pushed by the facts of this world into an independent development.
Initially, the main weight lies not with the eastern, linguistically as well younger group, rather with the western one, which settles accounts with the already decayed cultures of other Late Stone Age peasant folks and awakens new life from their legacy, in order to then, in the form of various individual folks, the Italiker, Greeks, Thracians, Phyrger, in part also Illyrians, penetrate deeper into the south and southeast.
The role of the southeastern Germanic people is a corresponding one and world-historically just as significant. As Indians, Iranians, Kimmerier, Scythians, they break into the super-annuated urban cultures of the southeast and of the old orient and reshape them into a new one pulsating with their new will.
What comes to us and the into the whole world from the later impulses of antiquity, of the orient as well, has all passed through the reshaping and purifying spirit of these Italikers, Greeks, Iranians, Indians and whatever they are all named, and both branches of the Indo- Germanic folks, the eastern and the western, have in the same way had a world-historically and social scientifically decisive share in the culture shaping of mankind. Even if the Nordic race is not the creator of “all” culture, nonetheless everything that surrounds us today as culture has become what it is only through the deepening intervention of the Nordic race and of the lndo-Germanic folks determined by it.
The Nordic race was in no way exhausted by the swarming out of the lndo-Germanic folks, rather it immediately planted a new seed leaf. While the lndo-Germanic land acquisition in the expanses of the south and southwest was still in full swing, the internally totally inde- pendent Germanic nationality formed in the old ancestral land of the Nordic race, in the present-day Lower German region, around 1,800 B.C., between the Illyrians in the east and southeast and the Celts in the southwest and west. It remained the solid support of the Nordic race in its ancestral regions.
Surrounded by other tribe related folks like the Illyrians and Celts, they were initially for millennia not directly involved in the mighty history of the south and southeast and could substantially develop their kind through their own energy and maintain it in great unity, until they, too, under the pressure of worsening climate, which at the end of the Bronze Age made the north inhospitable, took land in the east up to the Black Sea, won territory against the Celts in the west and south, and finally, around the end of their second millennium, through contact and fighting with the Romans become entangled in southern cultural events. The folk wandering and Viking Age, both the peak events of the third and final Germanic millennium, and the flowing of Germanicdom into Germandom, were the result.
The world historical significance of these events is determined according to the gain they have brought and how much of it has or should have an effect still today in the cultures of the leading folks, if currents and forces had not inferred that were opposed to the Nordic race and its desire for the ultimate and unconditional, [forces] which wanted to destroy the freedom of the spirit that follows from its truthfulness, and establish their own power instead. The legacy of mankind in its great cultures is simultaneously a struggle for this legacy itself, a competition of what has been found, but often also a losing or even annihilating of legacy values. Attacks seldom succeed completely. Great deeds, especially in the mind, continue to have an effect and can be deduced from the traces they leave behind. Then our own essence speaks to us again, warns and enlightens us and helps us in our own distress. It combines with all well-preserved knowledge and shows us our path.
Only in this sense can world history be practiced successfully as the history of ideas. It was also a valuation and will always remain such, but it depends on who values. Is it the ones who are biased in their intentions, who fear the truth, if it contradicts these intentions, or is it the ones who are able to stand above it?
The struggle of the races, folks and cultures is continued in the spiritual with intellectualized means, and the decisions that are made here are no less grave.
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