asked.
“The idea was to
overwhelm
the Aryans in mongrels.”
“But how would this help the Jews? If the Aryans were overwhelmed, wouldn’t the Jews be overwhelmed as well?”
The girls traded doubtful glances, and after a moment Miss Crenevant stepped in. “I think only more advanced students would be prepared to answer this question. The Jews were famously cliquish,” she said. “They stuck to their own with a kind of fierce, tribal exclusivity.”
“And this explains why the Jews wouldn’t be overwhelmed by the expansion of the mongrel races?”
“Yes. Lacking this rabid cliquishness, the Aryans would eventually be swallowed up in the mongrel flood, but the Jews would continue to hold themselves aloof. When theAryans disappeared, the Jews would still be there, the only distinct race of pure blood. This would make them, by default, the master race of the world.”
Mallory groaned and laid her head down on her arms on the desk in front of her. The girls pretended not to notice, but their eyes widened in dismay.
“A vicious plot,” I observed reassuringly. “So what happened next? We still have a long way to go to bring us to the present.”
“The Aryan Council of Nations was formed in 11 A.D.,” Etta offered.
Now that familiar, solid ground had been reached at last, the class visibly relaxed.
“It would probably be more accurate,” Miss Crenevant interposed, “to say that the Aryan Council of Nations was formally
recognized
in 11 A.D . In the years immediately following Dachau, not all nations were ready to acknowledge or embrace the reality of the situation.”
“In the old, Christian style of reckoning, when was the Aryan Council formally recognized?” I asked.
For the answer to that, they had to go to their textbooks. “It would have been 1954,” Ava declared after a bit of searching.
I said, “Tell us a bit about the Council. What was its mission?”
This was the sort of question they expected to see in their quizzes, and they began paging listlessly through their textbooks to find the answer. I interrupted to tell them I just wanted a brief summary, a thumbnail sketch. A couple of girls sighed; two or three shuffled their feet. No one cared to volunteer.
I said, “The author of the Council charter refers to the Spirit of Dachau. What did he mean by that?”
Etta shrugged her shoulders. “He meant it was necessary for the Aryan nations to be as cold as ice. Those were the words he used, ‘cold as ice.’ ”
“And what did this mean?”
They stirred sullenly, and I realized I was on the brink of losing them. “Miss Crenevant,” I said. “Maybe you can assist.”
She seemed relieved to take over. “We’d always taken our natural superiority over the unevolved races for granted, much the way we do with our pets and farm animals, and this nearly led to our downfall. The author of the charter was saying it was time for Aryan peoples to suppress their natural magnanimity and do what had to be done next to safeguard the future of the human race.”
“And what was that? What had to be done next?”
“The Spirit of Dachau had to be carried across the entire face of the earth.”
“Meaning what, exactly?”
“That humanity had to purge itself of mongrel strains once and for all.”
“Why?”
“Why? Because at the rate they were breeding, we’d soon be facing another crisis as horrendous as the one we’d just barely survived.”
“How long did it take for humanity to purge itself of mongrel strains once and for all?”
“A long time.”
“And how do you feel about this?”
“You mean … me, personally?”
“Yes, if you don’t mind.”
“No one feels wonderful about it,” she said with a shrug. “It was necessary and, after all, not without precedent.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“The story of human evolution doesn’t follow the same pattern as the evolution of other creatures. When reptiles emerged from the amphibians, they didn’t
“The idea was to
overwhelm
the Aryans in mongrels.”
“But how would this help the Jews? If the Aryans were overwhelmed, wouldn’t the Jews be overwhelmed as well?”
The girls traded doubtful glances, and after a moment Miss Crenevant stepped in. “I think only more advanced students would be prepared to answer this question. The Jews were famously cliquish,” she said. “They stuck to their own with a kind of fierce, tribal exclusivity.”
“And this explains why the Jews wouldn’t be overwhelmed by the expansion of the mongrel races?”
“Yes. Lacking this rabid cliquishness, the Aryans would eventually be swallowed up in the mongrel flood, but the Jews would continue to hold themselves aloof. When theAryans disappeared, the Jews would still be there, the only distinct race of pure blood. This would make them, by default, the master race of the world.”
Mallory groaned and laid her head down on her arms on the desk in front of her. The girls pretended not to notice, but their eyes widened in dismay.
“A vicious plot,” I observed reassuringly. “So what happened next? We still have a long way to go to bring us to the present.”
“The Aryan Council of Nations was formed in 11 A.D.,” Etta offered.
Now that familiar, solid ground had been reached at last, the class visibly relaxed.
“It would probably be more accurate,” Miss Crenevant interposed, “to say that the Aryan Council of Nations was formally
recognized
in 11 A.D . In the years immediately following Dachau, not all nations were ready to acknowledge or embrace the reality of the situation.”
“In the old, Christian style of reckoning, when was the Aryan Council formally recognized?” I asked.
For the answer to that, they had to go to their textbooks. “It would have been 1954,” Ava declared after a bit of searching.
I said, “Tell us a bit about the Council. What was its mission?”
This was the sort of question they expected to see in their quizzes, and they began paging listlessly through their textbooks to find the answer. I interrupted to tell them I just wanted a brief summary, a thumbnail sketch. A couple of girls sighed; two or three shuffled their feet. No one cared to volunteer.
I said, “The author of the Council charter refers to the Spirit of Dachau. What did he mean by that?”
Etta shrugged her shoulders. “He meant it was necessary for the Aryan nations to be as cold as ice. Those were the words he used, ‘cold as ice.’ ”
“And what did this mean?”
They stirred sullenly, and I realized I was on the brink of losing them. “Miss Crenevant,” I said. “Maybe you can assist.”
She seemed relieved to take over. “We’d always taken our natural superiority over the unevolved races for granted, much the way we do with our pets and farm animals, and this nearly led to our downfall. The author of the charter was saying it was time for Aryan peoples to suppress their natural magnanimity and do what had to be done next to safeguard the future of the human race.”
“And what was that? What had to be done next?”
“The Spirit of Dachau had to be carried across the entire face of the earth.”
“Meaning what, exactly?”
“That humanity had to purge itself of mongrel strains once and for all.”
“Why?”
“Why? Because at the rate they were breeding, we’d soon be facing another crisis as horrendous as the one we’d just barely survived.”
“How long did it take for humanity to purge itself of mongrel strains once and for all?”
“A long time.”
“And how do you feel about this?”
“You mean … me, personally?”
“Yes, if you don’t mind.”
“No one feels wonderful about it,” she said with a shrug. “It was necessary and, after all, not without precedent.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“The story of human evolution doesn’t follow the same pattern as the evolution of other creatures. When reptiles emerged from the amphibians, they didn’t
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