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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.

master race


The expression used by the Nazis in Germany for the race they wanted to create—a pure race of white people suited to rule the world. Extermination was the Nazis’ main tool for making the Germans pure. (See Holocaust.)	1

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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