Racial Pollution Definition: A prohibition of sexual relations with persons outside of defined races. Racial pollution was made an offence in Nazi Germany under the short-lived but nonetheless abhorrent 1935 Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor which defined the offence at §2 as follows: “Sexual intercourse (except in marriage) between Jews and German nationals of German or German related blood is forbidden.” In one 1942 case against a 68-year old Jewish businessman who was accused of a relationship with an "Aryan", German judge Oswald Rothaug wrote: "[T]he defendant’s actions, done with a purpose within a definite plan, amount to a crime against the body according to paragraph 2 of the ordinance against people's parasites. The law of ... 1935 has been passed to protect German blood and German honor. "The Jew's racial pollution amounts to a grave attack on the purity of German blood, the object of the attack being the body of a German woman." REFERENCES: Duhaime, Lloyd, Legal Definition of Rukun Duhaime, Lloyd, Oswald Rothaug (1897-1967) Duhaime, Lloyd, Nazi Law: Prelude to Holocaust, 1933-1943 Categories & Topics: Criminal Law Dictionary International Law Dictionary Find you are constantly looking up definitions? Try our search provider (works in most modern browsers) If you find an error or omission in Duhaime's Legal Dictionary, or if you have legal term suggestion, we'd love to hear from you!