Rassenpflege

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.

References
  • Michael, Robert; Doerr, Karin (2002) Nazi-Deutsch/Nazi German: An English Lexicon of the Language of the Third Reich, Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, →ISBN, page 326
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