Rassenhygiene

German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʁasn̩hyˌɡi̯eːnə]

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Noun

Rassenhygiene f (genitive Rassenhygiene, no plural)

1. (especially Nazism) eugenics

   Synonyms: Eugenik, Rassenpflege

Declension

Declension of Rassenhygiene [sg-only, feminine]

	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

Further reading

• “Rassenhygiene” in Duden online
• “Rassenhygiene” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache