Renordification (Aufnordung in German) refers to the racial policy implemented by the Third Reich to counter the denordification of Germans, the main branch of the Nordic Indo-Germanic people.

According to Nazi racial theorists such as Hans F. K. Günther and Walther Darré, the Germans, the main branch of the Indo-Germanic Nordic people, had undergone a process of denordification over the centuries. Even before taking power in 1933, the NSDAP developed a theoretical corpus designed to halt this process and strengthen the Nordic element within the Germanic Volk.^[1]

From the 1920s onwards, passionate debates were organized around this concept, which overlapped with those dividing the NSDAP around the original Indo-Germans.

The main debate within the NSDAP revolved around the concept of race: after Otto Strasser's departure, supporters of the Nordic race, and thus of renordification, its corollary, gained ascendancy within the NSDAP.^{[Note 1][2]} Until 1934, the racial debate within the NSDAP was very active, revolving around the notion of the Nordic race; after this bloody purge, opponents of the Nordic doctrine were systematically removed from the Nazi structure.^[3]

In these debates, Hitler, like Rosenberg, the two main theoreticians of Nazism in the 1920s, did not expressly settle the question; in 1934, during the debates within the party to rewrite the law in force in the Reich in a National Socialist sense, the debate was not settled, even if the debates reflected a desire to "improve the German race" and to set Jews aside.^[4]

As early as 1933, the proponents of this racial policy had the chance to implement a policy aimed at strengthening the so-called Nordic characteristics within the Germanic Volk. As a prelude to the creation of a Greater Germanic Reich on the scale of the European continent,^[5] renordification was seen by its theorists as a long-term policy, both cultural and racial.

• Aryan race
• Nordic race
• Heinrich Himmler
• Alfred Rosenberg
• Denordification