Rassenschande

Rassenschande
Racial shame
Reich Citizenship Law (Reichsbürgergesetz) for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor, adopted unanimously by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935.
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Rassenschande (literally "racial shame", "racial defilement", or "racial pollution", legally "miscegenation"), or Blutschande ("blood defilement"), was a concept in Nazi German ideology pertaining to sexual relations between Aryans and non-Aryans, enforced by the Nuremberg Laws which were adopted unanimously by the Reichstag on 15 September 1935 (see also: the German "Aryan certificate" requirement). Initially, these laws referred predominantly to relations between Germans and non-Aryans. In the early stages the culprits were targeted informally, and then later on punished systematically by a repressive legal apparatus.

In the course of the ensuing war years, relations between Reichsdeutsche Germans and millions of foreign Ostarbeiters brought to Germany by force, were also legally forbidden. Concerted efforts were made to foment popular distaste for it. The reasons for this were purely practical, because the Eastern European female slave labour servicing the German war economy soon became targets of rampant sexual abuse at the hands of the German farm workers and overseers. The Polish and Soviet women and girls began giving so many unwanted births on the farms that hundreds of special homes known as Ausländerkinder-Pflegestätte had to be created, in order to exterminate the infants out of sight.

Prior to the Nazi ascension to power, Hitler often blamed moral degradation on , or on "bastardization"—a way to assure his followers of his continuing anti-Semitism, which had been toned down for popular consumption. As early as 1924, Julius Streicher argued for the death penalty for Jews found guilty of having sexual relations with Gentiles.