Ahnenpass
Sign in to savethumb|Front page of an Ahnenpass, with a Parteiadler (Reichsadler|Eagle of the Party) of the NSDAP, looking on its left thumb|Inner page of the Ahnenpass of Dutch rower Tjapko van Bergen, with a Reichsadler (Eagle of the Reich) of the [[Nazi Germany, looking on its right]] thumb|Pages of an Ahnenpass thumb|Page 41 The Ahnenpaß (literally, "ancestor pass") documented the Aryan lineage of people "of German blood" in Nazi Germany. It was one of the forms of the Aryan certificate (Ariernachweis) and issued by the "Reich Association of Marriage Registrars in Germany" (Reichsverband der Standesbeamt
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thumb|Front page of an Ahnenpass, with a Parteiadler (Reichsadler|Eagle of the Party) of the NSDAP, looking on its left thumb|Inner page of the Ahnenpass of Dutch rower Tjapko van Bergen, with a Reichsadler (Eagle of the Reich) of the [[Nazi Germany, looking on its right]] thumb|Pages of an Ahnenpass thumb|Page 41 The Ahnenpaß (literally, "ancestor pass") documented the Aryan lineage of people "of German blood" in Nazi Germany. It was one of the forms of the Aryan certificate (Ariernachweis) and issued by the "Reich Association of Marriage Registrars in Germany" (Reichsverband der Standesbeamten in Deutschland e. V.).
The term Aryan in this context was used in a sense widely accepted in the "race science" of the time, which considered that there was a Caucasian race which was sub-divided into Semitic, Hamitic, and Aryan (Japhetic) subraces, the latter corresponding to the Indo-European language family. The Nazi ideology limited the category Aryan to specific subgroups, while excluding Slavs as non-Aryan. The actual primary objective was to create extensive profiling based on racial data.