Life For The Jewish Community And Minorities In Nazi Germany Flashcards
What was volksgemeinschaft?
This was created when Hitler and the Nazis emphasized their desire to create a Volksgemeinschaft (People’s or National Community) based on the foundations of race, ethnicity, and social behavior.
What was untermenschen?
People who were not considered to fit into the volksgemeinschaft
Give examples of races which were considered as ‘less inferior’:
The English, Danes & French who were all considered to have some Germanic blood.
Who was responsible for writing the Law for the prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring in July 1933?
Ernst Rudin
How were political prisoners treated?
-From the very start of the regime, they were sent to concentration camps
-Wore a red triangle
-Brutally treated eg floggings and pole hangings
-Many political prisoners were students & intellectuals who died as a result of their treatment
How were career criminal treated?
-Wore a green triangle
-Sent to concentration camps, some used by the SS as prisoner policemen and were given special privileges to beat& bully inmates
-Ordinary criminals were sent to prison where conditions were brutal
-During the war they were used to defuse unexplored bombs.
How were asocial Germans
