Nazi Germany

Question 1

Prosecution of the disabled

Answer 1

Sterilised over disabled people unwillingly
Unable to marry
Propaganda to get the German population to view them differently
Took children to a panel of experts that would decide if the child got murdered or not
T4 program

Question 2

prosecution of Jehovahs witnesses

Answer 2

Disrupted their meetings
Stopped the distribution of their magazine
Arrested and put on trial
Used as domestic servants in concentration camps

Question 3

Prosecution of gypsies and homosexuals

Answer 3

Set up ghettos and camps outside big cities
Books written by them were burnt
Nuremberg laws isolated them from the rest of the community

Question 4

Prosecution of Jews

Answer 4

Nuremberg laws were mostly targeted towards them
Kristallnacht made Jews get viewed as dangerous
Put in ghettos and isolated
Students were segregated and removed from schools
Forced to do unpopular jobs because they weren’t German citizens

Question 5

Ghettos

Answer 5

Overcrowded districts usually in the suburbs, used to isolate jews and minorities from society

Question 6

Final solution

Answer 6

The decision made by the nazi government to systematically murder the Jewish population of Europe.

Question 7

Why did they go through with the Final Solution

Answer 7

Nazis felt that all other methods of removing Jews had failed
German invasion of Poland gave extra space for extermination camps
Nazis were anti-communist and viewed Jews as primary agents
By 1941 Germany had occupied most of Europe increasing the Jewish population living in German territory to 8 million
Believed that Jews were subhuman and were taking up their living space.

Question 8

Kristallnacht

Answer 8

The night of violence against jewish communities followed by the assassination of a german official by a young jew. 1400 synagogues were burned, 7000 stores destroyed and 91 jews killed.