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* It could be said Hitler himself was also a Boomerang Bigot, because he did not fit his own definition of the "Aryan race" he deemed superior to all other men—and to this day recent DNA results say that he had some "Non-Aryan" ancestry (though others insist it's opposition propaganda). It has also been seriously suggested that he may have been in a relationship with Albert Speer, his chief architect.
** Heinrich Himmler did not meet the SS entry requirements for "racial hygiene" and physical fitness. He also talked of how the SS must "harden their hearts" and grin and bear the moral and mental consequences of murdering millions, but the only time he ever watched an ''Einsatzgruppe'' in action, he was so appalled by the sight of blood that he became hysterical.
** Heck, Joseph Goebbels isn't spared from the worse either, as despite the Propaganda Minister's biting rhetoric and zealous oratory against those whom the Nazi Party views as "sub-human" like Jews, Romani, blacks and people with disabilities, Goebbels ''himself'' was a ''sub-human'' based on Nazi standards on eugenics and genetic/racial purity. He developed osteomyelitis since childhood, and as such had a clubfoot and was 5'4", far below the party's expectations. Had the Nazis exercised those rules scrupulously Goebbels would've been thrown into a concentration camp and executed as well, if not for being useful to the Nazi cause through his propaganda skills.
* Tomás de Torquemada certainly had Jewish ancestry, and [[Richard Wagner]] reputedly did as well. (Torquemada may not quite count. He was theoretically persecuting a belief, not an ancestry and ''his'' ancestry would presumably be irrelevant to that. Of course he was primarily persecuting Jewish converts for allegedly lying about their conversions based on the "evidence" that they were born Jews. So whatever.)
** Torquemada was strongly influenced in his heresy-hunting by the concept of ''[[wikipedia:Limpieza de sangre|limpieza de sangre]],'' which held (perhaps not entirely unreasonably, but with disastrous results) that crypto-Judaizing and Islamizing was more likely among those with more Jewish or Arab ancestors. It has been theorized that the doctrine of ''limpieza de sangre'' is what shifted the emphasis of anti-Semitism away from religion and toward race, and so that this was the ultimate root of the Holocaust.
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