Nazi Germany: Life for the Jewish community and minorities in Nazi Germany Flashcards
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What where the 3 three Nazi racial ideas
The Master Race
Blood Purity
Eugenics
What is the Master Race
Nazis believed Aryans were superior to all other races
What is blood Purity
Nazis saw other races as subhuman. Believed marriage between races would pollute pure Aryan bloo.
What is eugenics
Nazis believed better human race could be bred, and degenerate genes needed removed from gene pool.
400 thousand people sterilised against will and 70 thousand more euthanised
How did the Nazis persecute the Gypsies [ The Roma]
Began in 1936
Roma rounded up and placed in concentration camps as part of crime prevention weeks
by 1938 Himmler was calling for a solution to the Gypsy question
700,000 Roma killed in Holocaust, referred to as the Porajamos
How did the Nazis persecute the Homosexuals
from 1933 there were attacks on homosexuals
100,000 men arrested an 15,000 sent to concentration camps for being gay
Some castrated , others experimented on to find a cure
Lesbianism also forbidden but seen as asocial rather than criminal
How did the Nazis persecute the Disabled
Diseased Offspring Law 1933 allowed for sterilisation of disabled
After 1935 doctors could perform abortions without permission. 300,000 women sterilised 39-41
1939-41 Nazis undertook a euthanasia programme - estimated 72,000 killed
Mentally disabled has to wear a black triangle with the word Blod on it.
How did the Nazis persecute the Jews economically
1933 Boycott of Jewish shops (1 day)
1933 Banned from owning land
1933 Banned from key media jobs
1938 had to register wealth to make it easier to confiscate
1938 Remaining Jewish business confiscated
How did the Nazis persecute the Jews with Civil Rights
1935 Nuremberg Laws
Reich Citizenship Law - effectively made German Jews second class citizens.
Law for Protection of German blood and German honour - made it illegal for Jews and Aryans to marry or engage in sexual relations outside of marriage
How did the Nazis persecute the Jews through exclusion?
1935 Banned from army
Jews not wanted signs in many towns and villages
1938 had to carry identity cards
1937 banned from key professions
1938 banned from legal practices
1938 Jews had to have passports tamped with a J and change their names to Israel or Sarah
1939 Jewish children not allowed to attend school
How did the Nazis persecute the Jews through violence
1938 Night of Broken Glass
Murder of a German by a Jew in Paris the Nazis orchestrated attack against Jewish community known as Kristallnacht
400 synagogues and 7,500 shops destroyed. 91 Jews killed and 20,000 sent to concentration camps.
Jews fined 1 billion marks for damage and made to clean up the damage
Impact of Nazi policy against Jews
by 1939 Jews harassed and humiliated daily
Many Jews saw Kristallnacht as a turning point
Those who were able to flee did so and a scheme to evacuate Jewish children to Britain called Kindertransport began
