Germany, Stuttgart.
The latest issue of the "International News Monthly" quickly appeared in newsstands across the streets, its cover bearing a conspicuous headline: "The Absurd Aryan Race Theory: Adolf 'Acknowledges a Thief as His Father.'"
As Germany's most prominent figure in recent times, Adolf himself was a highly discussed topic throughout the country, while Aryan race theory was also extremely popular in Germany at this time.
Thus, this "rebellious" publication with its unconventional views quickly drew the attention of many people.
"Boss, give me a copy of the International News Monthly." A rather rough-looking Stuttgart resident named Lorraine pointed at the newspaper before him.
The newsstand owner pulled out a paper and said, "Twelve pfennigs a copy."
The pfennig was a type of German currency. As a subsidiary unit of the Mark, it could also be understood as loose change. With the economic crisis making life difficult in every trade, newspaper prices had fallen considerably as well.
Therefore, anyone who still had spare money to buy newspapers must at least have had a fairly decent income. After all, while unemployment remained high during the economic crisis, most people still had jobs.
After receiving the paper, Lorraine eagerly began leafing through it. To be honest, he was quite interested in the contents of this issue of the International News Monthly, especially its discussion of the origins of the Germanic people.
"So Aryans were originally Persians and Indians?!" This view made Lorraine frown.
Naturally, this was a rather rough way of putting it. Aryans were mainly distributed across Central Asia, the Middle East, and the South Asian region. Distribution did not mean exclusivity; in India, for example, only those of the higher castes could be considered Aryans.
Yet under the newspaper's guidance, Lorraine had already generalized from a single instance, equating Aryans