The master race (German: die Herrenrasse, ) was a concept in Nazi ideology, which holds that the Teutonics (including the Nordic peoples), one of the branches of what in the late 19th and early 20th century was called the Aryan race, represent an ideal and "pure race". It derives from 19th century racial theory, which posited a hierarchy of races placing Aboriginal Australians and so-called "African savages" at the bottom of the hierarchy while Northern Europeans (namely the Germanic peoples [T… (More on Herrenvolk)