Editing Mischling (section)

{{Short description|Nazi German racial classification}}
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'''{{Lang|de|Mischling}}''' ({{IPA|de|ˈmɪʃlɪŋ|lang|de-Mischling.ogg}}; {{lit.|[[Miscegenation|mix]]-ling}}; {{pl.}} {{Lang|de|Mischlinge}}<ref>{{cite web | title=Mischlinge | website=Encyclopedia Britannica | url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Mischlinge | access-date=2024-04-04}}</ref>) was a pejorative legal term which was used in [[Nazi Germany]] to denote persons of mixed "[[Aryan race|Aryan]]" and "non-Aryan", such as [[Jews|Jewish]], ancestry as they were classified by the [[Nuremberg laws|Nuremberg racial laws]] of 1935.{{sfn|Ehmann|2001|p=420}} In German, the word has the general denotation of '[[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]]', '[[mongrel]]', or '[[half-breed]]'.<ref>Messinger, Heinz. ''Langenscheidts Handwörterbuch Englisch'', 2 parts, Teil II: Deutsch-English. Berlin (West) et al.: Langenscheidt, 1959.</ref> Outside its use in official [[Nazi terminology]], the term {{lang|de|[[Mischlingskinder]]}} ('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]].{{sfn|Fehrenbach|2001|pp=175, 183fn17}}<ref>Rudolf Sieg, "Mischlingskinder in Westdeutschland: Eine anthropologishce Stuide an farbigen Kindern", ''Beitrage zur Anthropologie'' 4 (1955):9–79.</ref>