>>The Master Race and other terms to describe a German are interesting. Especially when you consider that Prussia was originally inhabited by Slavic people.
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>Interesting in that the word "Slav" comes from the latin for "slave" (Sclavus) because that region of the world was where the Romans stole most of their human property.

Nope. That's a common misconception. I've even found traces of it being used by Italian fascists during the WWII.

The word has a deeply rooted set of meanings in Slavic languages (never with "scl" in it within these languages; the letter was inserted in transcriptions only), and a bunch of related words. "Slava" - glory, celebration. "Slavan" - famous, glorious. "Slovo" - letter, word, speech. Basically, what I remember from that neck of history, is mostly confirmed on Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavs):
There are obvious similarities to the word slovo meaning "word, talk". Thus slověne would mean "people who speak (the same language)", i.e. people who understand each other, as opposed to the Slavic word for Germans, nemtsi, meaning "speechless people" (from Slavic němi - mute, silent, dumb). Compare the Greek coinage of the term "barbarian".

Another obvious similarity links "Slavs" to the word slava, that is "glory" or "praise". The word came about from the verb "slyti", "to be known about"; it arises from the corresponding causative verb, "slaviti".

Sometimes "slav" is calculated to derive from "slov-" by the distinctly Russian phenomenon of akanie. Almost every Slavic nation which retains its initial name for "Slav" uses the word "slověne" for the meaning.

Some linguists believe, however, that these obvious connections are misleading.

A false etymology popular in National Socialist propaganda, but also found in some older editions of the Oxford English Dictionary, connected Slav with slave. There is certainly no basis for this.