I'm aware the Nazis claimed racial supremacy along with nations like the Scandinavians and Nordics, English and French, basically the ones they wanted to fight with to kill all the "impure Slavs." This is of course racial propaganda, a clever ruse used to unite genetically and historically similar peoples and make them go so far as to murder people not part of their "master race."
I'm curious how they thought of people like Norwegians and Finns, Swedes and Danes, Belgians and Dutch, Scots and Irish, English and Welsh. I'm aware they liked Romanians and Greeks racially, same with Italians, but that Russians and Ukrainais were "impure Slavs." I'm also told the Indians who were anti British had their own Pro-Nazi military of a couple hundred Indian men, and this was arranged by Bose with Hitler. In also aware that all Slavs were seen as racially impure slaves to the Übermensch Germanics.
I remember in two films, Nazis mention countries like Ireland and GB. In Inglorious Basterds the German SS officer (Diane Kruger/Fassbender bar scene) orders Scottish whiskey, claim in it's the best. In Das Boot the Germans have a famous scene singing It's a long way to Tipperary, and all the crew is pleased and joyous, except for the one condescending young officer, who is angered by the music of the "enemy" merely for reasons that aren't associated with race theory. To this, I remember reading about Dutch, Norwegian, French and Italian, even Spanish, and somehow about 30 English men who fought for Nazi ideology, or in their militaries. Obviously Hitler liked the Finns until late war when they fought against The USSR and Germany. An Estonian friend of mine's grandfather fought against The USSR with Germany, much as Hungarians and Latvians did.
I've also been told the Nazis urged British and French forces to fight the "evil communist Bolshevik Slavs," and that Nazi Germany was feeding them all the Aryan propaganda bullcrap, even informing the English that they could still switch sides and fight with Germany mid-war.
So in short this is a lot of what I know on this topic collectively. I don't mean to come off as rude by stating what I know about the situations, just to save you fellow passionate historians some typing time. Basically those are only semi-related to any concise answers I'm seeking.
A thanks in advance to all of my fellow passionate historians who will no doubt deliver a great contextual answer as always.
I'm curious how they thought of people like Norwegians and Finns, Swedes and Danes, Belgians and Dutch
Danes, Norwegians and Swedes basically came from the same ethnic group; Germanic tribes that emigrated northwards from the Continent. Our languages belong to the Germanic family which include; English, Dutch, German etc. We [Scandinavians] still consider each other family; Iceland and Finland are "cousins".
The Nazis considered Scandinavians "pure" Germanic stock, less polluted by other races. That's why there was a Lebensborn breeding program in Norway for example. The German Emperor and many upper class Germans had cultivated this concept [of our racial purity] for decades prior to WWII.
Scandinavia had a lot of ties with Germany prior to the war. For centuries we had strong cultural ties with Germany; trade, culture, science, and education. We traded extensively with them, we adopted their laws and ways. German professionals played an important role in our industry (see mining in Norway).
During the occupation of Denmark and Norway, German became the official language. We were meant to become part of the German Empire's core. Our local languages were meant to disappear, to make us full Germans.
Finns are distinctly non-Germanic and came from the east in what is present day Russia. Their language is also unique in that it's not from the Indo-European family, as opposed to for example the Germanic family. There is a large minority of Swedish speaking/ethnic Finns in Finland. So while they were clearly not all Germanic, the Nazis supported them against the Soviets etc.
hi! FYI, you'll find posts on an assortment of peoples in the FAQ