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norwegianne said:I think Aryan was the word used in Billed Bladet.
If this word appeared in the will then any court in germany of today would annull the will immediately as it's the word used by the Nazis for their "selected" people - Germans of that time had to have an "Aryan passport" which told of their ancestors name, and "Aryan" descent.
As much as I think it is detestable to force people to prove their ancestry (and to send those who couldn't to concentration and murder camps) I think it is nice that I still have the "Aryan passport" of my father which shows the quite august ancestry of his mother's side... Alas, my grandmother married money, not nobility and all the money and estate was lost after WWII so I'm myself neither noble nor rich... Bad that! Does it help that I found out that I'm descended from Charlemagne in direct line and that, if my grandmother had been a boy or lived in today's Germany I could be sporting quite a noble name in my passport? I'm afraid it doesn't. But it's nice to know....