Chapter 17 (NOT FINAL) Flashcards
What idea fitted nicely into Hitler’s views of Jews?
Social Darwinism.
What did Hitler consider to be the destiny of the Aryan race?
To rule over the inferior races.
What justified the sterilisation of the mentally ill and other racial undesirables?
‘Racial hygiene’
Who was excluded from the volksgemeinschaft?
- Political enemies
- Asocials
- Those of a different race (e.g. Jews, gypsies)
- Those with hereditary defects
Where did Germany’s destiny lie?
In the east, conquering Poland and the former Russian Empire to access fertile land a raw materials.
Other than ‘Germanise’ the eastern lands, what else would Hitler’s lebensraum do?
Bring the ‘lost Germans’ back into the Reich.
What is eugenics?
Selective breeding of a race to try and improve them.
Who were ‘biological outsiders’ of the Nazi volksgemeinschaft?
The mentally and physically ill.
When was the Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny passed?
July 1933
What did the Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny do?
Introduced compulsory sterilisation for certain ‘inferiors’, including alcoholics, depressives, epilepsy, hereditary blindness and deafness.
At what age could you be sterilised?
10 years old.
What did the Nazis ban Aryan women from doing in an attempt to increase birth rates?
They were not allowed to have an abortion or use contraception.
What happened to women over the age of 38 and why?
They were sterilised because they were at greater risk of giving birth to children with defects.
How many people did the Nazis sterilise in total?
400,000
When was euthanasia authorised for the mentally and physically disabled?
October 1939
