The following article, published in 1939 in American Anthropologist shows how the Nordicist tendencies of the National Socialist regime affected historical instruction in Germany. Nordicist theories were actually viewed with scorn among many educated Germans, and have been abandoned altogether by science. The neo-Nordicists of today continue in essence to plagiarize the Nordicists of the past, in the absence of any scientific evidence for the alleged primacy of the Nordic race: