Life For Jews And Minorities

Question 1

What was untermenschen ,

Answer 1

People without German blood were untermenschen (subhuman)

Question 2

How were mentally and physically disabled people treated in Nazi Germany?

Answer 2

They were killed. Even disabled babies were killed. Programmes of euthanasia were carried out. This group even included blind and deaf

Question 3

How were Jehovah’s witnesses treated?

Answer 3

There were only around 25,000. If they denounced their faith and swore an oath to Hitler they would not be prosecuted. If not they would be sent to prison.

Question 4

How were career criminals treated?

Answer 4

They were sent labour camps and used by the SS to beat and bully fellow inmates

Question 5

How were gypsies treated

Answer 5

We’re as dangerous as Jews
233,000 died

Question 6

How were political opponents treated?

Answer 6

They were sent to concentration camps from 1933 as a result of the Reichstag fire

Question 7

How were homosexuals treated

Answer 7

They were frowned upon as they did not meet Nazi ideals of having children.
In 1933 Hitler youth attacked the institute for sex research which studied homosexuality

Question 8

What are Asocial Germans

Answer 8

People who were deemed work shy, beggars, alcoholics, pacifists and prostitutes.

Question 9

What did the nazis believe about the Africans and Asians

Answer 9

That they were the product of a union between Eve and the devil

Question 10

What did the nazis believe about the English Danes and French

Answer 10

They weren’t so bad as they would have some German blood.

Question 11

What did the nazis believe about the slavs

Answer 11

They were only fit for slavery

Question 12

Who was a key figure in persecution of minorities and why

Answer 12

Ernst rudin- wrote the law for prevention of hereditarily diseased offspring

Question 13

When and what was the one-day boycott

Answer 13

April 1st 1933 was when a boycott of Jewish owned businesses and shops took place. This was to prevent Jews making money that day. S.A officers actively encouraged Germans to avoid entering Jewish places of work.

Question 14

When did towns start putting up signs excluding Jews and what did these signs read?

Answer 14

The signs read “Jews not wanted here”. They put them up in public places like parks and cafes. This started in summer 1935

Question 15

Why did persecution ease during the 1936 Olympics?

Answer 15

The Nazis wanted to show to international stage that they were a good country and healing after the loss of ww1

Question 16

What did the Nuremberg laws include

Answer 16

Two main elements

1. The Reich citizenship law: Jews were no longer German citizens and were deprived of political and economic rights. They became wards of the state.
2. The law for protection of German blood and German honour: it became illegal for Jews and Aryans to marry or engage in sexual relations outside marriage

Question 17

What changes for Jews in 1938

Answer 17

They had to carry identity cards, their passports marked with a ‘j’ symbol and forced to use new names, Isreal for men and Sarah for women

Question 18

What was Kristallnacht

Answer 18

Kristallnacht (the night of the broken glass) occurred in November 1938. This is because a Nazi diplomat was assassinated by a Jew in Paris. This led to violence all over Germany towards Jews. This event was a massive breakout of Jewish persecution.

400 synagogues
7500 shops
Many homes destroyed

91 Jews killed and 20,000 sent to concentration camps in the following months.

Nazis fined Jews 1billion marks for damages caused. The Jews were even forced to clean up the streets after the attacks.

Question 19

When were Jews banned from key professions?

Answer 19

January 1937

Question 20

How did Jews resist persecution?

Answer 20

Armed resistance
Cooperation
Emigration and hiding
Personal heroism and survival
Non-violent resistance

Question 21

When where the Nuremberg laws put into place

Answer 21

September 1935