Editing Master race (section)

==Cultural influences==
Aryan master race ideology was common throughout the educated intellectual community and literate strata of the Western world until the post-[[World War II]] era. Such theories were commonplace in early-20th century fantasy literature.

In the 1920s and 1930s, the original ''[[Buck Rogers]]'' stories and [[Comic strip|newspaper cartoons]], Buck Rogers, in his adventures in the 25th century that takes place on Earth, depicts him fighting for ''[[European Americans|Aryan-Americans]]'' from the liberated zone around [[Niagara, New York]], against the ''Red Mongol Empire,'' a Chinese empire of the future which rules most of North America.<ref>''The Collected Works of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century'' 1969 Chelsea House{{snd}}Introduction by [[Ray Bradbury]]{{snd}}Reprints of the original [[Buck Rogers]] comic strips</ref>

In the 1930s, both educational and storybooks for children in Germany taught their readers about the master race. In the ''Sun Koh'' science fiction series, the protagonist Koh says things like "My forefathers were Aryan", and in a story about [[Atlantis]], he says, "If our Atlantis once again rises out of the sea, then we will get from there the blond, steel-hard [[Man (word)|men]] with the pure blood and will create with them the master race, which will finally rule the earth."<ref name="voss">Julia Voss, [https://www.faz.net/s/Rub71E8665493FD4CB29D4E0759DF21C32C/Doc~E63B66F19501A41828F6A22377304DC05~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html "Jim Knopf rettet die Evolutionstheorie"] ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (December 16, 2008). Retrieved July 31, 2011 {{in lang|de}}</ref> The German writer [[Michael Ende]], who was born in 1929 and grew up reading such books, wrote his classic novel ''[[Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver]]'' in the 1950s, as a way of opposing the Nazi propaganda he was taught as a child. ''[[Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung]]'' writer [[Julia Voss]] wrote a book<ref group=note>Voss' book was written as a doctoral [[dissertation]].</ref> on Jim Button, uncovering Ende's many references to Nazi symbols in that book.<ref>[http://www.kultiversum.de/Literatur-Literaturen/Evolutionstheorie-Julia-Voss-Darwins-Jim-Knopf-Im-Zickzack-durch-Lummerland.html Book review of ''Darwins Jim Knopf'' by Julia Voss] Kultiversum.de "Im Zickzack durch Lummerland" (2009). Retrieved August 4, 2011 {{in lang|de}}</ref> Voss shows how Ende upends the Nazi belief that Atlantis was the original home of the Aryan race by creating his own submerged city and making it rise, but not to restore Aryan master-race rule over the Earth, rather it becomes a multi-racial paradise with Jim Button, who is black and a descendant of the Magi Caspar, as its king.<ref name="voss" />

In the 1948 film [[Rope (film)|''Rope'']] by [[Alfred Hitchcock]], one of the central characters, Brandon Shaw, is a firm believer in the master race ideology.{{Citation needed|date=October 2018}}

In the ''[[Doctor Who]] series,'' the Doctor's frequent enemies, the [[Daleks]], consider themselves a master race which must purge the universe of all other life forms; [[Terry Nation]] explicitly modeled them on the Nazis.<ref>http://nzdwfc.tetrap.com/archive/tsv51/terrynation.html | Terry Nation – Writing For The Screen, By Paul Scoones</ref> In the 2009 special "[[The End of Time (Doctor Who)|The End of Time]]", when [[Master (Doctor Who)|the Master]] transforms the entire human race into copies of himself, he claims that there is no human race, but only "the Master race".

In the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series, while the parallels were not originally intentional, there is much similarity between [[Lord Voldemort]]'s "pureblood" ideology and the master race ideology of the Nazis, with wizards being "pure" and anyone with Muggle (non-wizard) blood being considered "half-blood" or "mudblood", a word used and treated the same way a racial slur would be in the real world ([[Neo-Nazism|Neo-Nazis]] call non-white people ''mud people'').<ref>{{cite web|last=Johnston|first=Ian|title=Author 'chilled' to learn Harry's half-blood status has Nazi parallels|date=29 July 2004|url=http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8042/author-chilled-to-learn-harrys-half-blood-status-has-nazi-parallels|access-date=June 30, 2011}}</ref>

In the film ''[[Lethal Weapon 2]]'', the Master Race is a criminal organization of corrupt [[Afrikaner]] diplomatic officials from South Africa, led by South African consul-general in Los Angeles named Arjen Rudd that smuggles illegal [[krugerrand|gold krugerrands]] into the United States of America via [[Port of Los Angeles|Los Angeles Harbor]].