How did the nazis see the Finno-Ugric people.

If the German Aryans where the master race and highest group in Europe and Slavs, Roma and Jews where at the bottom. What position did the Finns, Magyars and Estonians occupy. And if the nazis had won would they be in danger of ethnic cleansing.
 
Finns explained here.

About the Estonians, I think they'd try to find those who had significant amounts of German ancestry and classify them as Aryans. Not sure what they'd do with the rest.
 
Der Norden Sonderlehrgang 2 published in 1943 and intended for German soldiers stationed in Finland is a rather comprehensive Nazi view on Finns and Finland. It has a Nazi version of Finnish history, and a "racial analysis" where Finns are seen as an 'East Baltic' mixed group that has gained a lot of 'Nordic blood' through the contact with Germanic peoples, mainly the Swedes, so that only in eastern Finland one may discover individuals with clearly 'eastern' racial features. It was written after Himmler had secretly visited Savo region to view the locals.

It is also worth to notice that Himmer and his Ahnenerbe loonie von Grönhagen funded three expeditions to East Karelia before WW2 to record and film traditional rune-singing and to find hidden proto-Aryan folklore...
 
Finns were conisdered defacto aryans from 1941 and dejure from 1943. See the post above by Karelian for that.

Estonians, as far as I know were recogniced as a worthy people similar to the German aryans in 1944.
 
I imagine what was said above about the Finns (and Japanese in the linked Wikipedia article) would also apply to the Hungarians. Even if some of the Nazi authorities considered them "Mongoloid" because of their language and steppe origin, political expediency would tend to favor their being assigned to the "Honorary Aryan" category.

What about the various Uralic-speaking minorities in western Russia, such as the Mari, Komi, or Mordvins? Did the limit of Axis advance on the Eastern Front ever reach their republics, and if so, are there any records regarding Axis policy towards them?
 
how did (or do) the Hungarians view the Finns and Estonians?

did they ever envision an arc of influence? although I assume Finland would not want to trade Swedish domination for Hungarian.
 
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