Those of half- and quarter-Jewish descent remain largely forgotten in the history of the Third Reich and the genocide of the Holocaust. Known as Mischlinge, people deemed to be of “mixed blood” or “hybrid” faced widespread persecution and alienation within German society and found themselves in the crosshairs of a rampant National Socialist racial ideology. Controversially, these people proved quite difficult to define under Nazi law which sought to separate the Volk from the primarily Jewish "other", and as a mechanization towards Hitler's "final solution" the Mischlinge faced probable annihilation. The somewhat neglected status of the Mischlinge requires a refocus on German racialization as well as a reconsideration of the implications brought by the alienation and eventual persecution of the thousands of half- and one-quarter Jews subjugated in Nazi Germany. An exploration of the status of mixed-blood Jews in Nazi Germany yields a brief history of the anticipatory racial conceptions that led to the Third Reich. The use of Mischlinge as well as other labels intended to denote mixed blood evolved naturally from well-established racial conceptions central to Germany and the ideology of the Third Reich. This ideology, which existed as “an uneasy fusion of several strands of racial elitism and popularism,” defined people by not only their Rasse or racial identity, but also their membership in the German people or Volk (Hutton 15, 18) . The idea of ​​the Volk denoted not only the sharing of language and heritage, as well as the right of citizenship, but also the time-honored right to inhabit German lands. Above all, this idea was about the triumphant unification of a German people perceived as threatened with dissolution by ethnic and religious groups such as the R… at the center of the card… the so-called Mischlinge.” The Holocaust and history. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. 155-133. Glasser, Ingeborg. The Panther Dance: Memoirs of Love and Terror in Nazi Germany. New York: Book Republic Press, 2006.Grenville, John AS “Neglected Victims of the Holocaust: The Mischlinge, the Judischversippte, and the Gypsies.” The Holocaust and history. Ed. Michael Berenbaum and Abraham J. Peck. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1998. 315-326.Hutton, Christopher M. Race and the Third Reich. Massachusetts: Polity Press, 2005. Koehn, Ilse. Mischling, Second Grade: My Childhood in Nazi Germany. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1977.Tent, James F. In the Shadow of the Holocaust: Nazi Persecution of German Jewish-Christians. Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2003.