‖ judenrein, a.
(ˈjuːdənraɪn)
[G., = free of Jews.]
Of a society or organization: without Jewish members, out of which Jews have been expelled.
| 1942 New Republic 21 Dec. 817 It is not merely central and eastern Europe which are being ‘purged’, or rendered ‘Judenrein’, as the Nazis like to say. 1951 H. Arendt Origins of Totalitarianism i. 4 When Hitler came to power, the German banks were already almost judenrein. 1960 H. Agar Saving Remnant vii. 188 A country which was becoming almost Hitlerianly Judenrein. 1969 C. Roth Short Hist. Jewish People (rev. ed.) vi. xxxi. 444 The survivors..were rounded up and sent to the death camps, Warsaw being now judenrein. |