It should be immediately noted that the doctrine of the division of people into races was popularized by anthropologists in the early twentieth century. Discussions on this topic today are largely regarded as not scientific, but ideological, therefore, not having scientific usefulness.
Encouraging a claim to the superiority of a particular race, the so-called "Nordic", implied a corresponding assessment of people of other races. An ideology called “Northern Theory” or “Nordism” (Nordicism) was prevalent in the late 1800s and early 1900s in Western Europe and North America, and had a significant impact on Nazi ideology. Particularly strong attention was paid to it in the 1920s, when the term "Nordic race" was used along with the term "Aryan race".
This ideology, which positioned the Nordic race as a race of masters within the larger, Caucasian, was criticized in the UK, USA and other progressive countries by the 1930s.
The Reich Minister of Food in Nazi Germany and the ideological mentor of Heinrich Himmler, Richard Walter Oscar Darre, developed the concept of the German peasantry, which was defined as the "Nordic race", which had no relation to the Aryan, Indo-European or Germanic. The term "Aryans" (Aryans) was used to refer to tribes from the Iranian plains.
So, in accordance with these ideological ideas, life in all its many and varied forms and manifestations is a product of the process of divergent evolution, according to which Europeans are divided into three “breeds” or racial categories - northern, alpine and Mediterranean.
The Nordic race, common in Northern Europe, representing one of these three categories (small races or anthropological types) that make up the Caucasoid race, is different from the others and shows, within its diversity, many features that are unique in relation to themselves. Its representatives live mainly (but not exclusively) in Northern Europe, among the German-speaking population, characterized by dolichocephaly (elongated head shape), fair skin, high cheekbones, straight or slightly wavy blond hair, which with age can turn light brown or dark brown. They have bright eyes: blue, gray, greenish. The stereotypical Nordic type of appearance did not quite fit the description of “pure Aryans”, who in large part had dark hair, despite the fact that Nazi propaganda posters portrayed “Aryans” as blondes.
Supporters of the “Northern Theory” claimed that the “Nordics” in the history of human civilization dominated in antiquity, even among the Mediterranean race, hinting that some Roman emperors had blond hair.
Nordic race in turn, it is divided into two subgroups - central and peripheral (Atlantic, Neo-Danube subtypes). By the central group is meant three anthropological types: borreb, brunn, Scandinavian. The first two are characterized by archaic features that date back to the Upper Paleolithic types: tall, massive physique, large head, broad face. These are the descendants of the first peoples who settled in northwestern Europe.
The Scandinavian group exists in two types: the Hallstatt and the Celtic type of the British Isles and the Netherlands. It appeared in northwestern Europe during the Iron Age, along with Celtic and Germanic cultures. In many areas, such as Denmark and northern Germany, the various types of the northern race are inextricably linked, as is common among northern Europeans living in the United States.
It often happens that different subracial classifications exist in a rather narrow circle. A relatively homogeneous population, a Scandinavian-style Hallstatt, can be found in southeastern Norway and central Sweden, an area that renowned American anthropologist Carlton Stevens Kuhn called the "haven of the classic Scandinavian race." In his work “Races of Europe” (1939), he says that the modern Scandinavian race is a mixture of two archaic Mediterranean anthropological types (type of Culture of battle axes and Danube type). However, based on DNA studies, this relationship was found to be false. They showed a much closer relationship between the Scandinavian and Upper Paleolithic types - more than with any of the Mediterranean.
Initially, the very notion of “Nordic race” (northern) was introduced by the French anthropologist Joseph Deniker, who created the classification of races in 1900. Its use was intended to describe the "ethnic community" (ethnos).
In the 21st century, there was a unanimous agreement between anthropologists and biologists that there were no “pure” races, and never had. The advent of population genetics has further undermined theories about categorizing Europeans into clearly defined racial groups.
But in any case, among the prevailing uncertainties about racial categories, it remains a fact that the northerners are characterized by certain physical characteristics, as well as a special warehouse of social behavior, which can be voiced as a “Nordic character”. This is independence, perseverance, initiative, willpower, hard work, a heightened sense of justice.