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German
Etymology
From Jude (“Jew”) + -n- + Knecht (“lackey, slave”).
Noun
Judenknecht m (strong, genitive Judenknechts or Judenknechtes, plural Judenknechte)
- (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 .
Declension
Declension of Judenknecht