17 Radicalisation Of The State Flashcards
3 Main phases of radicalisation
- Legal revolution, 33-34
- New Germany, 34-37
- Radical Policies, 38-39
Social Darwinism
- Justify racial ideas and imperialist growth through adapting survival of the fittest and creating racial hierarchy
Slavs: key term
Ethnic group in Central and Eastern Europe, included Czechs, Poles, Russians ext
Herrenvolk
- Master race
- Northern Europe
Degenerate: key term
- Person lacking usual qualities, either physical, mental or moral
Volksgemeinschaft
- National community twisted by racial thinking
- Remove enemies
Volksgenossen
- National comrades
- Membership for Aryans
Groups excluded from volksgemeinshaft
- Political enemies
- Asocials
- Different races
- Hereditary defects
Lebensraum
- Living space
- More space and expansion of territories to extend master race
Eugenics: key term
- Race being genetically improved through selective breeding
Key dates for progression of sterilisation
- 33, Law for prevention of hereditary diseases
- 36, X Ray sterilisation for women over 38
Number of people sterilised by Nazis
400,000
Euthanasia: key term
- Intentionally ending a life to relive pain and suffering
Dr Phillip Bouhler (1899-1945): key profile
- Nazi party newspaper 1920s
- 1933 head of Hitler’s Party office
- Controlled letters for granting euthanasia
Dr Karl Brandt (1904-48): key profile
- In Hitler’s inner circle
- Co founder of euthanasia programme
- Commissioner of health and sanitation
Number of innocent children who died under Nazi Euthanasia programme
> 5000
T4 Programme
- Bureaucracy and paperwork to pass euthanasia cases
- Forms of patients to decide whether they should die
End of T4 Programme
- Complaints to Reich Justice Ministry
- Resistance from Churches
- Pope in 1940
- Areas such as the Rhineland support archbishop Galen’s sermon against it
Asocial
- Social outcasts
- Work shy, homosexual, alcoholic
Key dates about Asocials
- 36, main round up due to Olympics
- 38, sent to Buchenwald concentration camp
Examples of Concentration Camp badges
- Star of David
- Yellow and Black for Aryans who converted to Judaism for example
- Pink triangle for homosexual men
Key dates for homosexual discrimination
- 33, Youth barred Institute of sex research
- 34, Gestapo list
- 36, Reich office for combatting homosexuality and abortion
How many homosexuals were arrested around 1936?
100,000
How different religious groups responded to Nazi rule
- Jehovah Witnesses very resistant
- Seven Day Adventists had positive view
- New Apostolic Church incorporated SS and SA flags ext
