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I mean... which Europeans and when? Because I studied Roman Law with a book written by a fascist, and it sure as hell had a TON of stuff about Iustinianus in there that you were supposed to learn, and that guy lived in full-on Istambul.

If anything I see the distinction between a "Roman" and a "Byzantine" empire more in English texts these days. It's not like the Brits and the American so-called "founding fathers" didn't have a massive hard-on for that era and the idealized common law take on their legal system.

I guess this counts as my "thinking of the Roman Empire" for the day. Time to reset that counter to 0 days.

When Boris Johnson wanted to appear "smart" he'd trot out a little Latin, and the Right Wing types would just swallow the whole turd and ask for more

No, but I've seen plenty o' people calling themself special compared to people equally wait to us. Having a brit call themself better than a Lithuanian or polish because they're a different kind of white just boggles my mind

You should talk to the holy roman empire of german nations then

Maybe not nowadays, but you know how much the third reich tried to symbolically align themselves with the Roman Empire, right? To wit:

On the other hand, additional elements of Roman culture were manipulated by Nazi officials in order to claim a racial affinity with classical Rome, associated in turn with a strong autocratic political system and a militaristic society, which would then be represented as productive of a flourishing civilisation.

Emphasis mine. It’s deeper than that, but there was absolutely a conscious internal propaganda effort in Nazi Germany to represent their “new world order” as aligned with the Roman Empire in a racial, societal, and aesthetic sense.

I don't know about modern Germans, but the nazis definitely appropriated and identified with classical Roman and Greek culture (here's one well-regarded book exploring this).

Given that the original post is about fascism and racial supremacy, I assume any German fascists/supremacists it's referring to share some ideology with the nazis in this regard.

Well, "the people" were told by the nobility that the nobility was roman descendants and that's why they were supposed to rule over them.

In certain places The Hanseatic League said, "horseshit, we actually make things, what do you do?"

But the lay farmers mostly just went along with it.

So no, modern Germans don't see themselves as Roman, but that was an important part of the lie that propogated feudalism and held power over those peoples for thousands of years.