page_title: Untermensch
hierarchical_section_title: Untermensch
caption_attribution_description: English: Serbien muss sterbien! ("Serbia must die!"), an old Austrian propaganda caricature, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in 1914. Image showing the Austrian hand crushing a Serbian holding a bomb and dropping a knife. Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски: Serbien muss sterbien! ("Srbija mora umreti!"), stara austrijska propagandna karikatura, nakon atentata na austrijskog nadvojvodu Franca Ferdinanda 1914. Slika prikazuje austrijsku ruku kako smrskava srbina koji drzi bombu i ispusta noz.
context_page_description: Untermensch is a Nazi term for non-Aryan "inferior people" often referred to as "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs. The term was also applied to Blacks and Mulattos. Jewish people were to be exterminated in the Holocaust, along with the Polish and Romani people, and the physically and mentally disabled. According to the Generalplan Ost, the Slavic population of East-Central Europe was to be reduced in part through mass murder in the Holocaust, with a majority expelled to Asia and used as slave labor in the Reich. These concepts were an important part of the Nazi racial policy.
context_section_description: Untermensch ([ˈʔʊntɐˌmɛnʃ] (listen), underman, sub-man, subhuman; plural: Untermenschen) is a Nazi term for non-Aryan "inferior people" often referred to as "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (Poles, Serbs, Russians, etc.). The term was also applied to Blacks and Mulattos. Jewish people were to be exterminated in the Holocaust, along with the Polish and Romani people, and the physically and mentally disabled. According to the Generalplan Ost, the Slavic population of East-Central Europe was to be reduced in part through mass murder in the Holocaust, with a majority expelled to Asia and used as slave labor in the Reich. These concepts were an important part of the Nazi racial policy.
caption: Attitudes underlying the concept of "untermensch" existed before the word was first used in that sense in 1922. This propaganda poster from 1914 has the rhyming slogan "Serbia must die!" and was made after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. It depicts the fist of Austria-Hungary crushing its subhuman enemy, a chimpanzee-faced Serb wearing Ottoman slippers and carrying a dagger.
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