Life for Jews and other minorties in Nazi Germany Flashcards
How did Nazis see other races?
Untermenschen (sub-human) E.g. Africans and Asians - Nazis believed to have come from union between Evi and a demon
Who were the master race?
Aryans and the Nazis believed that this would prevent what they saw as pollution of the perfect German through ‘eugenics’
Forms of preventing racial ‘pollution’
Mothers were encouraged to have as many children as possible.
The Nazis enacted policies to prevent opponents from reproducing.
Who was Ernst Rubin?
He was a psychiatrist and was ‘one of the most evil men in Germany’ and wrote the Law for Prevention of Hereditarily offspring (July 1933)
Why did Hitler hate the Jews?
- Defeat in 1918 and the humiliating Treaty of Versailles.
- Economic problems of Weimar
- Took too many jobs
- Weakening the Aryan race
- He believed that communism was Jewish.
How were Asocial Germans treated in Nazi Germany?
They included the ‘work shy’, beggars, alcoholics, pacifists and prostitutes.
Many were sent to concentration camps.
How were mentally and physically disabled treated in Germany?
Killed mentally disabled babies and mentally ill parents under the Diseased Offspring Law.
After 1935 doctors could terminate a pregnancy of a disabled person.
How were Gypsies treated in Germany?
Nazis saw them as a danger as the Jews.
Sent to concentration camps.
Himmler was looking for a solution to the ‘Gypsy Question’ by 1938.
How were Homosexual men treated in Germany?
Hitler Youth attacked the institute for Sex research, which studied homosexuality.
100,000 homosexual men were arrested and 15,000 sent to concentration camps.
Some were castrated and experiment.
How were Jehovah’s Witness treated in Germany?
Their religion was banned and they were placed in prison or mental institutions.
2,000 were sent to concentration camps and 250 were executed.
How were Career criminals treated in Germany?
They were sent to labour camps.
During WW2 prisoners were required to defuse unexploded bombs or executed when prisons were overcrowded.
How were political opponents treated in Germany?
They were sent to the very first concentration camps from 1933 following the Reichstag fire.
Many were students and intellectuals and many died.
How was the Jewish boycott a key turning point in Jewish persecution?
Aimed to intimidate Germany’s Jews and discourage people from shopping from their businesses.
Nazis claimed the boycott was a justifiable response to ‘international Jewry’s’ criticism of Germany. SA patrolled outside Jewish shops.
How was the Nuremberg laws a key turning point in Jewish persecution?
The Reich Citizenship Law:
Withdrawing their citizenship
They became wards of the state
Other economic restrictions e.g. jobs
The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour:
Segregation
Yellow star displayed on them
Illegal for Jews and Aryans to marry or engage in sexual relations
How was Kristallnacht a key turning point in Jewish persecution? (November 1938)
Jewish homes, shops and synagogues were destroyed and 91 Jews were killed.
30,000 were sent to concentration camps
Jews fined 1 Billion marks to pay for the damage
