Rassenpflege

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German

Etymology

Rasse (“race”) +‎ Pflege (“care, maintenance”)

Noun

Rassenpflege f (genitive Rassenpflege, no plural)

  1. (Nazism, euphemistic) "racial care", maintaining the "purity" of a race
    • 1941, M. Staemmler, Deutsche Rassenpflege:
      Wir müssen Rassenpflege treiben, weil wir unser Volk lieben.
      We must engage in racial care because we love our people.

Declension

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

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 326
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