Editing Racial policy of Nazi Germany (section)

==Other "non-Aryans"==
{{See also|Ostlegionen|Free Arabian Legion|Kalmykian Cavalry Corps|Indische Legion}}
[[Image:Bundesarchiv Bild 101I-295-1560-21, Nordfrankreich, Turkmenische Freiwillige.jpg|thumb|right|Volunteer ''[[freiwillige]]'' troops of the [[Turkestan Legion]] in France, 1943]]

Though the laws primarily targeted Jews,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.anti-racism.supanet.com/rac/concept.htm |title=The Concept "Jew" in Nazi German "Race" Legislation |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511164210/http://www.anti-racism.supanet.com/rac/concept.htm |archive-date=11 May 2008 |access-date=21 June 2014}}</ref> other "non-Aryan" people were subject to the laws, and to other legislation concerned with [[racial hygiene]]. The term "Aryan" was never fully defined—it was too imprecise and ambiguous; a number of judicial and executive decisions made attempts over time to clarify the concept. Outside of Europe, North African Arabs were by definition non-Aryan because of their "[[Negroid|African origins]]", but according to [[Alfred Rosenberg]]'s racial theories (''[[The Myth of the Twentieth Century]]''), some of the [[Berber people|Berbers]], particularly the [[Kabyle people|Kabyles]] and the [[Rif people|Rif]], were to be classified as Aryans.<ref>(a)"''The Berbers, among whom even today one finds light skins and blue eyes, do not go back to the Vandal invasions of the fifth century A.D., but to the prehistoric Atlantic Nordic human wave. The [[Kabyle people|Kabyle]] huntsmen, for example, are to no small degree still wholly Nordic (thus the blond Berbers in the region of Constantine form 10 % of the population; at Djebel Sheshor they are even more numerous).''", [[Alfred Rosenberg]], ''[[The Myth of the Twentieth Century]]'', 1930; (b) "''Among the Berbers a Nordic strain shows itself clearly''", [[Hans F.K. Günther]], ''The racial elements of European History'', 1927</ref> The Nazis portrayed [[Swedish people|Swedes]], the [[Afrikaners]] &ndash; who are white European descendants of Dutch-speaking [[Boers]] in [[South Africa]] &ndash; and higher-degree Northern/Western Europeans of South America (mainly from Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina) as ideal "Aryans" along with the German-speaking peoples of Greater Germany and Switzerland (the country was neutral during the war). The Roma (Gypsies), who, while considered originally Aryan, were deemed a threat to the Aryan race because of their racial mingling.<ref>{{cite web |title=Gypsies in the Holocaust | url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/gypsies.html}}</ref>