Mischling
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'''''' (; ; ) was a pejorative legal term which was used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and "non-Aryan", such as Jewish, ancestry as they were classified by the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. In German, the word has the general connotation of “hybrid”, “mongrel”, or “half-breed”. Outside its use in official Nazi terminology, the term ('mixed children') was later used to refer to war babies born to non-white soldiers and German mothers in the aftermath of World War II.
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- Nazi definitions of Mischling
- Jewish identity in society
- Reclassification procedures
- Standards of the ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS)
- Jewish ''Mischlinge'' as Christian converts
- ''Mischlinge''-founded organizations
- Prominent persons characterized as ''Mischlinge'' according to Nazi ideology
- Fate during the Nazi era
- Discrimination in education, vocation and marriage
- Mischlinge recruitment into the Organization Todt
- Jewish Mischlinge in German-occupied Europe
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
'''''' (; ; ) was a pejorative legal term which was used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of mixed "Aryan" and "non-Aryan", such as Jewish, ancestry as they were classified by the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935. In German, the word has the general connotation of “hybrid”, “mongrel”, or “half-breed”. Outside its use in official Nazi terminology, the term ('mixed children') was later used to refer to war babies born to non-white soldiers and German mothers in the aftermath of World War II.
==Nazi definitions of Mischling==