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Saturday, September 02, 2006
In The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust the author claims that:
- The attempts by a Finnish anthropologist to assert that the Finns were an "Aryan" people was greeted with some hostility from his colleagues. There was a reference to Finns having their own ideas, but the footnote wasn't clear and I don't have time to track it down (and the cite is clear a German language publication). But, I wonder if part of the issue might be what Jaakkeli has spoken of in regards to Finnish ideas of hybrid vigor
- He filmed Karelian illiterate magicians and witches and recorded their "spells." It would be interesting to see this footage as the-European-as-primitive-savage would be a novelty.
- One argument for the Finns' Mongoloid/Asian origins was that their reserved and taciturn character was more Asiatic than European.
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