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English
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Rassenschande (literally “race shame”).
Proper noun
Rassenschande
- (Nazism) miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews.
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: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.
German
Etymology
Rasse + Schande
Pronunciation
Noun
Rassenschande f (genitive Rassenschande, no plural)
- (Nazism, obsolete) miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews
- Synonym: Blutschande
Declension
Declension of Rassenschande
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