Why do people insist that Germans are blonde haired and blue eyed?

[barnumandbailey]

Whenever I think of typical “Germanic” (insofar as the term applies to the country and its people) features, I think of Claudia Schiffer:

[Gründig]

my blood is mainly German and im dark blonde haired, hazel eyed and rosy skin, I fit as typical german I think cuz my features are like a darker Hallstatt

Let’s do steroids together chaaaaaaa brahhhhh

[Luso]

Let’s do steroids together chaaaaaaa brahhhhh

Lol I’m on my way to becoming Zyzz brah

[Richmondbread]

Because it became popular in Nazism

Hitler and his group of imbeciles idolized something they were not

beautiful
blond
tall
and blue eyes

Ironically blonde people are considered stupid, lol.

[LittleDarkAge]

Ironically blonde people are considered stupid, lol.

Only people who dye their hair blonde are considered stupid. You morons are frustrated by not having blonde hair and now are attacking everyone who does. Grow up a bit.

[Sakis]

Wrong, the difference between north and south is very minimal, to be honest i didn't notice it in the real life. Now in 2021 these 100 years old hair and eye maps makes no sense, there were many internal migration between the world wars and after the WW2, and after the fall of communism many north (eastern) german moved to the richer areas, and basically South Germany is richer than the northern regions. Trust me you will see same peoples in the north and south.

But of course if you spent too much time in TA you will think south germans are meds, northernes are pure blonde blue eyed, finns are blonde mongoloids, balkanites looks turkish, south europeans are arabic/negroid and other bullshit.

The funniest TA theory is that southern Germans are dark but Northern Italians are light, makes much sense

[Ruggery]

Ironically blonde people are considered stupid, lol.

WTF Bro

[Radimir]

How did Germans allow a certain non-blond Austrian to define how they should look like, is a much better question.

[XenophobicPrussian]

How did Germans allow a certain non-blond Austrian to define how they should look like, is a much better question.

When will this stupid myth die out?

Hitler had nothing to do with the Aryan theories, the racial anthropology with a focus on blonde, blue eyed Aryans happened to get far more popular under and during Hitler, not from/via Hitler. He literally had nothing to do with it other than maybe approving funding. If you want to blame anyone blame someone like Alfred Rosenberg(I would also say Hans Gunther but he was a rather standard anthropologist back then who based his Nordic race primarly on cephalic index, body height and face length/narrowness, he literally had dark haired Stonewall Jackson as an example of Nordic and 50% of Germans as Nordic, so again, nothing to do with this blonde haired and blue eyed meme), and even then it's way overstated how much of an importance it was to racial theorists like Rosenberg. Also, back then(and even to this day to people who live in uniformly dark haired populations), blonde can simply mean non-brunet.

Hitler was a German nationalist/imperialist/chauvinist, any physical features between Germans were irrelevant to him. He was solely gentile German vs non-gentile German and everyone else, with a favourable disposition to other western Europeans, including French and the Italians, but mainly the English, Low Countries and Scandinavians because of perceived shared ancestry(again, regardless of pigmentation).

[Tauromachos]

A significant part of Germans is blond and blue eyed the pure proper very light blond as you find in some Scandinavians is not that common in Germans as in some North Euros though

From past journeys through Germany i feel like the swarthiest regions were Rhineland and Schwarzwald the rest is lighter.