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Rassenschande

Rassenschande proper noun: miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews.

Proper noun

Rassenschande

  1. (Nazism) miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews.
    • In fact, some historians’ mistaken belief about the unwavering German implementation of both Rassenschande and their genocidal policy has caused them to turn a blind eye to numerous sources, German and Jewish, that testify to the realities of Jewish women’s experiences during the war.2010, Helene J. Sinnreich, “The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust”, in Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust, Hanover and London: University Press of New England, page 116

Origin of Rassenschande

Unadapted borrowing from German Rassenschande (literally “race shame”).

Questions about Rassenschande

What does Rassenschande mean?
Rassenschande means miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews.
What part of speech is Rassenschande?
Rassenschande is a proper noun.

Words near Rassenschande in the dictionary

  1. rasse
  2. Rasselasian
  3. Rasselgat
  4. rassemblement
  5. rassemblements
  6. Rassenschande
  7. rasses
  8. Rassi
  9. rassing
  10. Rassis
  11. rassle

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