The Nazi “racial theory” was termed a myth by Dr. M. Ashley-Montague, noted American anthropologist, addressing the American Association of Physical Anthropologists at Harvard.
Dr. Ashley-Montague declared that racial mixture, far from causing impurities, produces a purifying effect. Many defective traits of the parents are eliminated in the offspring as a result of crossing, so that the group as a whole because “it should be pointed out that the Jews are not a single race, but a number of races, and that they exhibit in perhaps preeminent degree the biologically good effects of race mixture. Thus, in a marriage between German and Jew, the German would get by far the better of the bargain.”
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