Mischling (lit. "mix-ling"; plural: Mischlinge) was a pejorative legal term used in Nazi Germany to denote persons of both Aryan (Nazi pseudo-scientific delineation for Germanic) and Jewish ancestry as codified in the Nuremburg racial laws of 1935. In German, the word has the general denotation of hybrid, mongrel, or half-breed. Outside its use in official Nazi terminology, the term 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.
