L23: development of Persecution

Question 1

impact of Nuremberg Laws

Answer 1

• made Jews legally different from their non-Jewish neighbour
• Jews x citizens = no rights + access to govt service

Question 2

laws introduced to remove of ‘bad’ hygiene from German society

Answer 2

• Jul 14 1933: Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases ( forced sterilisation of Gr with hereditary conditions -> 400,000 German= forcibly sterilised by 1939)
• 1933: creation of ‘Pink lists’ -> banning of all LGBTQ groups + clubs ( stripped of civil rights = 53,400 convicted and imprisoned -> torture and death for 1000s)
• 1935: homosexual male r/ship = banned-> 5,000-15,000 gay men sent to concentration camp
• 1939: Secret ‘Aktion T-4’ Euthanasia Program= ‘Euthanising’ of mentally + physically disabled (panel of 3 medical experts made determination abt whether child would live -> est. 10,000 disabled children = murdered)

Question 3

laws introduced to maintain ‘good’ hygiene in Gr society

Answer 3

• 1933: Law for the encouragement of Marriage (newly married receive govt loan of 1000marks -> birth of child reduces 25%, 2 for 50%, 4 for 100%/ motherhood cross awarded to women with many children)
• new restrictions placed on contraception + abortions (propagandas: ‘abortion is a crime against the body and state’/ legal and encouraged abortion if the child was disabled or mother was non-Aryan)
• 1935: Lebensborn (well being of life)program = encouraged women to have children with SS + give up babies for adoption

Question 4

stereotypes promoted in anti-semitic propaganda

Answer 4

• reinforced stereotypes that Jews were greedy + money hungry
• spread ‘news’ and rumours with anti-semitic tilt = blood libels, Jewish sex offences etc.
• linked Jews & communism together -> 2 main enemies of Germany
• tagline= ‘Die Juden sind unser Ungluck’ (the jews are our misfortune)

Question 5

types of propaganda

Answer 5

• posters, films, cartoons, games, radio
• Der Sturmer = Nazi propaganda newspaper
• in children’s books

Question 6

Nuremberg laws

Answer 6

• Nuremberg laws = ideas about race into law + separate Jews from Germans to protect Gr
• Reich Citizenship Law = citizen is someone of ‘German or related blood’/ Jews x be full citizens of Gr + have x pol. rights
• the Law for the protection of Gr blood and Gr honor = law against race-mixing/ banned relations between Jews and people of Gr or related blood

Question 7

role of Josef Goebbels

Answer 7

• job= increase support for the Nazi Part and indoctrinate Gr through propaganda
• ministry of Pubic enlightenment and propaganda (1933)