Rassenschande

Rassenschande ("racial shame", "racial defilement", or "racial pollution") or Blutschande ("blood defilement") was the Nazi term for sexual relations between Aryans (cf. Aryan certificate) and non-Aryans, which was punishable by law. Initially, this predominantly referred to relations between Germans and Jews, who were first informally targeted and then systematically, by law; later, relations between Germans and Eastern Europeans, who were brought into the Third Reich as slave workers, were also forbidden relations. Concerted efforts were made to foment popular distaste for it.