Rassenhygiene
German
editEtymology
editCoined by German physician Alfred Ploetz in 1895, equivalent to Rasse (“race”) + Hygiene (“hygiene”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editRassenhygiene f (genitive Rassenhygiene, no plural)
- (especially Nazism) eugenics
- Synonyms: Eugenik, Rassenpflege
Declension
editDeclension of Rassenhygiene [sg-only, feminine]
References
edit- 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
Further reading
edit- “Rassenhygiene” in Duden online
- “Rassenhygiene” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache