Chapter 17 (NOT FINAL)

Question 1

What idea fitted nicely into Hitler’s views of Jews?

Answer 1

Social Darwinism.

Question 2

What did Hitler consider to be the destiny of the Aryan race?

Answer 2

To rule over the inferior races.

Question 3

What justified the sterilisation of the mentally ill and other racial undesirables?

Answer 3

‘Racial hygiene’

Question 4

Who was excluded from the volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 4

• Political enemies
• Asocials
• Those of a different race (e.g. Jews, gypsies)
• Those with hereditary defects

Question 5

Where did Germany’s destiny lie?

Answer 5

In the east, conquering Poland and the former Russian Empire to access fertile land a raw materials.

Question 6

Other than ‘Germanise’ the eastern lands, what else would Hitler’s lebensraum do?

Answer 6

Bring the ‘lost Germans’ back into the Reich.

Question 7

What is eugenics?

Answer 7

Selective breeding of a race to try and improve them.

Question 8

Who were ‘biological outsiders’ of the Nazi volksgemeinschaft?

Answer 8

The mentally and physically ill.

Question 9

When was the Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny passed?

Answer 9

July 1933

Question 10

What did the Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny do?

Answer 10

Introduced compulsory sterilisation for certain ‘inferiors’, including alcoholics, depressives, epilepsy, hereditary blindness and deafness.

Question 11

At what age could you be sterilised?

Answer 11

10 years old.

Question 12

What did the Nazis ban Aryan women from doing in an attempt to increase birth rates?

Answer 12

They were not allowed to have an abortion or use contraception.

Question 13

What happened to women over the age of 38 and why?

Answer 13

They were sterilised because they were at greater risk of giving birth to children with defects.

Question 14

How many people did the Nazis sterilise in total?

Answer 14

400,000

Question 15

When was euthanasia authorised for the mentally and physically disabled?

Answer 15

October 1939

Question 16

How were the mentally and physically disabled regarded by the Nazis?

Answer 16

An unproductive burden.

Question 17

How many children were euthanised by the Nazis?

Answer 17

5000

Question 18

What was the euthanasia programme called?

Answer 18

Aktion T4

Question 19

Who led the Aktion T4 programme?

Answer 19

Dr Philipp Bouhler

Question 20

When did the Aktion T4 programme stop?

Answer 20

August 1941

Question 21

Who managed to stop the Aktion T4 programme?

Answer 21

The Churches

Question 22

When did the pope speak out against the Aktion T4 programme?

Answer 22

December 1940

Question 23

When did Archbishop Galen of Munster preach a sermon attacking euthanasia?

Answer 23

3 August 1941

Question 24

What was Hashude?

Answer 24

An asocial colony in northern Germany.

Question 25

When was Hashude set up?

Answer 25

1936

Question 26

What was Hashude set up for?

Answer 26

To re-educate asocials so they could be reintegrated into society.

Question 27

What did Nazi students do in May 1933?

Answer 27

They attacked the Institute of Sex Research, a gay organisation, and burnt their library.

Question 28

How many men were arrested an imprisoned between 1936 and 1938 for being homosexual?

Answer 28

22,000

Question 29

When was the Reich Office for the Combatting of Homosexuality and Abortion created?

Answer 29

1936

Question 30

Who created the Reich Office for the Combatting of Homosexuality and Abortion?

Answer 30

Himmler

Question 31

What happened to many homosexuals that were arrested?

Answer 31

They were subjected to 'voluntary castration'.

Question 32

What was set up to combat the gypsies?

Answer 32

Reich Central Office for the Fight Against the Gypsy Nuisance

Question 33

When was the Reich Central Office for the Fight Against the Gypsy Nuisance set up?

Answer 33

1936

Question 34

What did Himmler issue in 1938 to combat the gypsies?

Answer 34

Decree for the Struggle Against the Gypsy Plague

Question 35

What two things did Himmler do against homosexuals and gypsies?

Answer 35

- Reich Office for the Combatting of Homosexuality and Abortion - Decree for the Struggle against the Gypsy Plague

Question 36

What did the Decree for the Struggle Against the Gypsy Plague do?

Answer 36

Require all gypsies to be registered and issued with an identity card.

Question 37

When did Nazi students attack the Institute of Sex Research, a gay organisation, and burn their library?

Answer 37

May 1933

Question 38

What office did Himmler set up to tackle gypsies?

Answer 38

Reich Central Office for the Fight Against the Gypsy Nuisance.

Question 39

Who preached a sermon attacking euthanasia?

Answer 39

Archbishop Galen of Munster