Nazi Germany - Nazi Party, Schutzstaffel, Gestapo, Gleichschaltung, Martin Heidegger, Sturmabteilung, Night of the Long Knives, 20 Ju (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 228. Chapters: Miscegenation, Glossary of Nazi Germany, Nazism, Schutzstaffel, Greater Germanic Reich, New Order (Nazism), Women in Nazi Germany, 20 July plot, Night of the Long Knives, Anschluss, Nazi propaganda, Kristallnacht, Holocaust train, White Buses, Paragraph 175, Remilitarization of the Rhineland, Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany, Posen speeches, Beer Hall Putsch, Reichstag fire, Administrative divisions of Nazi Germany, List of former Nazi Party members, Israelitisches Familienblatt, Attempts to escape Oflag IV-C, Pictorial list of postage stamps in Nazi Germany. Excerpt: Miscegenation (; from the Latin miscere "to mix" + genus "kind") is the mixing of different racial groups through marriage, cohabitation, sexual relations, and procreation. The term miscegenation has been used since the 19th century to refer to interracial marriage and interracial sex, and more generally to the process of racial admixture, which has taken place since ancient history. The term entered historical records during European colonialism and the Age of Discovery, but societies such as China and Japan also had restrictions on marrying with peoples they considered to be of a different race. Historically the term has been used in the context of laws banning interracial marriage and sex, so-called anti-miscegenation laws. Today, the use of the phrase is considered offensive. In the present day, the word miscegenation is avoided by many scholars, because the term suggests a concrete biological phenomenon, rather than a categorization imposed on certain relationships. The term's historical use in contexts that typically implied disapproval is also a reason why more unambiguously neutral terms such as "interracial," "interethnic" or "cross-cultural" are more common in contemporary usage. The term remains in use among scholars when referring to past practices concerning multiraciality, such as anti-miscegenation laws that banned interracial marriages. In Spanish, Portuguese and French, the words used to describe the mixing of races are mestizaje, mesticagem and metissage. These words, much older than the term miscegenation, are derived from the Late Latin mixticius for "mixed," which is also the root of the Spanish word mestizo. Portuguese also uses miscigenacao, derived from the same Latin root as the English word. These non-English terms for "race-mixing" are not considered as offensive as "miscegenation," although they have historically been tied to the caste system (Casta) that was established during the colonial era in Spanish-speaking Latin America. Some grou