racial hygiene

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Calque of German Rassenhygiene.

Noun[edit]

racial hygiene (uncountable)

  1. (Nazism) An approach to eugenics in Nazi ideology which sought to prevent the supposed contamination of races deemed to be superior from miscegenation.

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