Judenknecht

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German

Etymology

From Jude (Jew) +‎ -n- +‎ Knecht (lackey, slave).

Noun

Judenknecht m (strong, genitive Judenknechts or Judenknechtes, plural Judenknechte)

  1. (Nazism, offensive) Jew slave; a slur that could be directed at anyone who cast doubt on the Nazis’ Jewish policy or helped the Jews (even in the most immaterial way)
    • no date , Raul Hilberg, foreword by Adalbert Rückerl, anonymous quotee, “Zeugenschaftliche Vernehmung eines ehemaligen deutschen Stationsvorstehers”, in Sonderzüge nach Auschwitz, Frankfurt: Ullstein, published 1987, page 11:
      Ich gab meinem polnischen Stationsleiter Anweisung, er möge mein Wasserglas nehmen und dem Mädchen Wasser reichen. [...] Der SS-Führer beschimpfte mich als Judenknecht; ich sei nicht würdig, deutscher Beamter zu sein [...].
      I ordered my Polish station supervisor to get my drinking glass and give the girl some water. The SS officer abused me as a Jew slave and said that I was unworthy of being a German civil servant .

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