German edit

Etymology edit

Rasse (race) +‎ Pflege (care, maintenance)

Noun edit

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 edit

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 326