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Nazi Germany - Minorities Flashcards

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Define aryan

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Nordic or Anglo-Saxon races that the Nazis believed were racially superior

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Define Einstatzgrupen

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SS Units responsible for rounding up & murdering Jews in Eastern Europe

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Define Eugenics

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Racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed ‘unfit’, preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype

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Define Final Solution

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The term used by the Nazis to describe the extermination of Jews from 1941

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Define Genocide

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The organised murder of an ethnic group i.e the Jews

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Define Ghettos

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  • An area in a city inhabited by Jews;
  • under Nazi rule they were separated from other citizens
  • & forced to live in overcrowded conditions
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Define social darwinsim

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Belief that life is a competition and that the fittest deserve to prosper whilst the unfit deserve to be left behind

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What was the Wannsee Conference

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Conference held in 1942 at which the Final Solution of Jews in Europe was agreed by top Nazi figures

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Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against Political Enemies

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150,000 left-wing enemies of the Nazis were imprisoned during 1933-45

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Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against Gypsies (Roma & Sinti)

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  • This groups were first to be murdered because of their ‘racial’ identity
  • When WW1 broke out they were deported to Poland
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Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against disabled people

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  • The Law for the Protection of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (1933) permitted the compulsory sterlization of those with hereditary conditions
  • In 1939, Aktion T4 scheme was launched in which disabled children were murdered
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Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against asocials

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  • people who did not coform to Nazi social ideals e.g the homeless & alcoholics,
  • were imprisoned in concentration camps
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Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against homosexuals

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  • 15,000 men were imprisoned in concentration camps,
  • because they were viewed as resisting the Nazi desire for all Aryans to breed
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
January 30th 1933

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  • Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany,
  • immediately imposes a national boycott of Jewish businesses - SA members stood outside shops urging people not to go in
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
September 15th 1935

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  • 2 Laws:
  • The Reich Citizenship Law, saying Jews are no longer German Citizens
  • The Law for the Protection of German Blood & Honour, which forbids marraige between Jews & Germans
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
July 1938

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The Evian Conference, world leaders refused to accept more Jewish refugees to their countries

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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
August 17th 1938

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A law is passed forcing Jewish women to add Sarah & men to add Israel to their names, which must appear on all new legal documents inc passports

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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
December 1938

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  • A law is passed confiscating all Jewish businesses
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
August 1941

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  • voluntary emigration of German Jews forbidden
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
1936

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  • Jewish doctors cannot work in govt hospitals & Jewish patients cannot use these hospitals
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
October 5th 1938

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  • A law is passed saing Jewish passports have to be stamped with a large red ‘‘J’’
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
September 1st 1939

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  • The German army invades Poland
  • All Jews in Poland have to wear a star of David
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
November 23rd 1939

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  • All Jews in occupied Poland have to wear a yellow star on their clothes
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
April 30th 1940

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  • Jewish people in Poland are forced to move into ghettos
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
September 1939

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  • Jews cannot be out after 8pm
  • Jews are forbidden from owning radios
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
June 22 1941

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  • Germany invades USSR - Operation Barbarossa
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
November 9th 1938

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  • Kristallnacht - this is a government permitted attack on Jews in Germany & Austria
  • Jewish homes, businesses & synagogues are vandalised & burned
  • Jewish property is stolen (looting)
  • 28,000 German & Austrian Jewish men are deported to concentration camps
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
April 1940

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  • Himmler orders the building of the first (of 6 six total) concentration camp at Auschwitz
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
May 1941

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  • Hitler creates 6 Einsatzgruppen (killing squads)
  • These squads are given orders to follow the German army into Russia & shoot all Jews & Communists
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
September 29-30 1941

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  • There is a mass murder of 34,000 Jews near Kiev, carried out by a German Einsatzgruppe & Ukranian police
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
January 20 1942

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  • Senior German officials meet outside Berlin at a country house in Wannsee
  • The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the ‘‘final solution’’ for the Jewish problem
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
Feb 1942

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  • the first gassing of Jews is carried out at Auschwitz
  • By spring, death camps have been established at Belzec, Treblinka & Sobibor
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Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
1942-44

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  • Transportation of Jews from around Europe to death camps
  • 6 million are murdered, of which 1 million are Einsatzgruppen massacres

Ms Bray - History (35 decks)

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