Rassenhygiene

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Etymology

Coined by German physician Alfred Ploetz in 1895, equivalent to Rasse (“race”) +‎ Hygiene (“hygiene”)

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Noun

Rassenhygiene f (genitive Rassenhygiene, no plural)

  1. (especially Nazism) eugenics
    Synonyms: Eugenik, Rassenpflege

Declension

Declension of Rassenhygiene
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative eine die Rassenhygiene
genitive einer der Rassenhygiene
dative einer der Rassenhygiene
accusative eine die Rassenhygiene

References

  • Michael Robert, Karin Doerr (2002) Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi-German: An English lexicon of the language of the Third Reich, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 325

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