17 The Radicilisation Of The State

Question 1

How many Jehovah’s Witness were there in Germany in the 1930’s

Answer 1

Only 20,000
(Of a total 65 million Germans)

Question 2

Why did the nazis despise jehovahs witnesses

Answer 2

The movement offered a ‘rival ideology’ to the nazi movement

Question 3

What happened to jehovahs witnesses first under nazi rule

Answer 3

April 1933, four months after hitler became chancellor they were banned in Bavaria and by the summer they were banned in most of Germany

Question 4

What happened to the childrens of jehovahs witnesses

Answer 4

They greatly suffered, ridiculed in classrooms by teachers and students and eventually expelled from schoools.
Authorities took the children away from their families and sent them to reform schools, orphanages or private homes to be brought up by Nazi’s.

Question 5

How did Jehovahs witnesses act in camps

Answer 5

Wore markings to be identified by guards.
Even in the camps they continued to meet, pray and convert people.
Members were uniquely sustained in the camps by the support they gave each other and their belief that the suffering was part of their work for God despite exceptionally harsh conditions they faced.
Continued to work after the liberation of camps, moving among the surviviors making converts.

Question 6

How many jehovahs witnesses were imprisoned in camps

Answer 6

10,000

Question 7

What happened to gypsies in july 1933

Answer 7

Under the “law for the prevention of offspring with hereditary defects” gypsies were sterilised against their will.

Question 8

What was the effect of the Nuremberg racial laws of 1935 on gypsies

Answer 8

Did not explicitly mention gypsies but in commentaries interpretating the laws they were included

Question 9

What office opened in 1936 that effected gypsies

Answer 9

A central office to “combat the gypsy nuisance” opened in Munich. This office became the headquarters of a national data set bank on gypsies.

Question 10

What happened to gypsies as a result of the 1936 olympics

Answer 10

June it was authorised that Berlin Police would conduct raids against gypsies so they would not mar the image of the city before the Olympic Games.
Prior to the olympics 600 gypsies were arrested and taken to a special Gypsy interment camp in their caravans. In the camp with unsanitary conditions disease flourished.

Question 11

What happened to some gypsies in camps

Answer 11

They were subject to genealogical and genetic research from Dr Robert Ritter

Question 12

What happened to the children of sinti and roma

Answer 12

Many were taken from their families and brought to special homes for children as wards of the state

Question 13

What did the seventh day activists think of the nazi regime

Answer 13

gave a positive welcome to the regime, describing it as the beginning of Germany’s rebirth. They displayed swastika flags in their churches and concluded it’s services with the ‘Heil Hitler’ greeting. They excluded asocials and Jews from receiving help.

Question 14

How did the Mormons compromise with the regime to ensure their survival

Answer 14

The Mormons welfare organisation selected recipients according to Nazi criteria

Question 15

How did the new apostolic church adapt to the nazi regime

Answer 15

Incorporated SS and SA flags into its church parades

Question 16

Who was Helmuth Hubener

Answer 16

The youngest victim of the peoples court for standing up against the nazis.

Question 17

Why was Helmuth Hubener executed?

Answer 17

As a Mormon he was concerned by how his congregation became supportive of the regime.
Listening illegally yo international radio reports made him reflect on Germanys position
He spread the information he heard in the form of pamphlets.
He spread this for months but was spotted by a co worker and turned in Feb 1942.
He was arrested and tried as an adult.
In court he confronted the nazi judges about the regime and law.

Question 18

How big was the ‘afrodeutsch’ population in germany

Answer 18

20,000 to 25,000

Question 19

What was Germany like for black people in the 1920s

Answer 19

Black people often experienced prejudice
Some elements of black culture became popular in Germany, especially jazz music.

Question 20

Why were the nazis not too bothered about black people

Answer 20

The population in germany was so small

Question 21

Why did the Nazis have a problem with mixed race people

Answer 21

They threatened the ‘purity’ of the german race

Question 22

Who were the Rhineland bastards

Answer 22

Around 600 to 800 mixed-race children were born through relationships between local German women and African American french soldiers who were labelled ‘Rhineland bastards’.