ex-member DonaldTrump wrote on Apr 2
nd, 2007 at 6:57pm:
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Italians are largely 'whiter' in the northern Italian area. Venice etc...
In the south, Rome etc, they largely look 'meditteranean.' The reason of the physical differences between Italians I'd imagine would be the movements of people between Switzerland and Italy in the north, and the movement of people between 'North Africa' and Italy in the south. This may have played a part in Hitlers thinking, as well as the fact that Northern Italy is the more 'sophisticated' area of Italy.
Italy is more like a grouping of states, than a country. The reason that southern Italians look different has little to do with the Swiss influence in the north, or Africans.
Most of the southern 'darker' features are in the region of the Sicilia and Napoli. Sicilians were initially darker because they have Phonecian ancestry. Napolese are largely Greek and Phonecian. The mainland of Italy is largely Greek, with some ancestry relating to northern European conquests.
Further darkening would have occured while the southern states were ruled by Arab emirs for the last 300 years of the first millenia. The emirs also controlled northern Africa. The emirs were Arabs (present Saudi), not Africans.
Quote:Hitler was also obsessed with history, and acknowledged the fact that the Romans created a massive empire, hence the master race thing...
The only Romans who were 'pure' were the ruling class (from which the Caesar was elected). All other Romans were a hotchpotch of races, because the method of conquest was to absorb local culture to ensure conformity. So the Romans were in fact the first multicultural society.
Which means that Hitler acknowledged that a master race was multicultural!