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  • The answer to your question is no. Hitler was raised Catholic and at one time wanted to be a priest. What he did do was mutilate the word Aryan. Many religions (including Zoroastrians, Buddhists, Jains, and Hindus) use Aryan as a title for a person who is noble and/or spiritual. In Buddhist teachings for instance, someone can be Aryan, no matter what race they are, by being noble, good natured, righteous in behavior, etc... Likewise Aryan status is lost by not living up to this code of conduct. Aryan was once used to refer to the people (not race) who spoke the original Indo-Europe language/s, but that term has been replaced by PIEs, or Proto-Indo-Europeans. Racist "white supremacists" should technically be called delusional morons, not Aryans. This idea of an "Aryan" race was strongly embraced by Germans as nationalism united the many weak and divided states into a single German nation (during the 19th century). We all know were things went from there (during the early 20th century), with Adolf Hitler using this German superiority complex to assist in gaining power and then blaming all of Germany's problems on non "Aryans". Many hundreds of thousands of people have suffered from this fallacy. There is no such thing as an "Aryan" race. The idea that "Aryans" where outsiders who came into India to conquer the natives is also unproven. People just believed this because of wishful thinking and not proof. This eventually led to widespread false use of "Aryan" by Nazis and other racists as the supposed "white" master race (this racism needs to stop). (most common usage) The supposed "white" master race. This recent mutilation of the meaning of "Aryan" was first caused by anti-Semitism (prejudice against Jews or Judaism). Some early Christian scholars made up the idea of an Aryan race (no evidence, just theories based on their own prejudices) as a means of separating themselves from their Jewish heritage (Christianity began as an extremist Jewish sect). They wanted to believe that they descended from different people than the Jews because of differing religious beliefs (ignoring that fact the old testament of the Christian bible is really just an idealized translation of the Torah, or Jewish Hebrew bible). The ancient spelling of the word "Iranian". literary means noble in old Persian and Sanskrit. Noble also literary means a free wo/man in Persian (kind of a more spiritual freedom than material). Historical note: The term Aryan was stolen by German philosophers in 18 century since the linguistics discovered some similarities between Indo-Iranian languages and European languages.Aryans were originally persian. They invaded India a few times in the last few thousands of years. A very small number of Indians are actually Aryan and they tend to live in northern India. Aryans spoke an Indo-European language that is now known as Persian(Farsi). Aryan is not only a race but also a common name in places which aryans reside.
  • Hitlers hatred of the jews is well documented and he may well have been raised a Catholic but he wanted the foundation of the 'master race' to be not based on judaic history as christinity is. The Aryans or Arians moved from central asia to North India about 5000 years ago. The area they moved from is present day Aran or Iran. In linking india including the indian swastika to Nazism, Hitler sought to justify his warped ideas of racial superiority. There is a linguistic link though between German/ English and Hindi/Urdu as these are all indo-eurpean languages which share a common origin known as a prototype langauge. Hitler may well have come across zoroastrianiam within his 'exploration' of North India history. Like the arians/aryans they too had moved to India from modern day Iran. I don't know if zoroastrians were aryan or not though without doing some research but I am aware of many of them are said to have moved to north india to escape religeous persection of arab islam.

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