Why did the National Socialists consider the Sioux as Aryan? (Part IV [Preceding Here])

There is also no doubt that racial, moral and cultural reasons, although perhaps most important, were not the only ones for which the National Socialists saw the Sioux as Aryans. Undoubtedly, political and propaganda motives, about which F. Usbeck writes, were also at stake. Labeling the Sioux and Mexicans as Aryans was obviously intended to ensure friendly relations between these peoples and the German Reich, which was important in view of the anticipated conflict with the United States. In 1942, German propaganda predicted that there would soon be an Indian uprising in the United States and that the Indians would not fight alongside the Americans on the fronts of World War II. Joseph Goebbels was convinced that the Indians would never stand alongside their oppressors, from whom they had suffered so much harm over the centuries. As Timothy C. Downing emphasizes, the Germans also spent a considerable amount of their time and money trying to win the support of the Indians for the cause they fought for, and even promised to return the expropriated land to the Native Americans after winning the war.

These actions had some effect. The American Indian Federation (AIF), one of the largest political Indian organizations in the 1930s, was openly pro-German and anti-Jewish, and its members strongly criticized President Roosevelt's New Deal policy. Prominent members of this organization, such as Elwood A. Towner, an attorney from Portland and the leader of the Hupa Indians, incorporated the symbolism and ideology of National Socialism into their political agitation. In his speeches, he always appeared to the public wearing a traditional Indian costume with a swastika band, which he compared to the ancient symbol of the Indians - the Thunderbird. In his July 9, 1939 speech, Towner accused the Jews, whom he described as "chuck-na-gin", which in Indian language meant "children of Satan". He claimed that the Indians had to unite with good Christians in order to fight the Communist bug-infested administration of President Roosevelt, which he described as "evil forces". He told his listeners that the American government was under Jewish control and that President Roosevelt himself was a crypto-Jew who was in fact supposed to be called Rosenfelt. He concluded by saying that it would be a wise decision for the Native Americans to accept the ideals of National Socialism.

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