racial hygiene

English

Etymology

Calque of German Rassenhygiene.

Noun

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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