Nazi Germany - Minorities Flashcards
Define aryan
Nordic or Anglo-Saxon races that the Nazis believed were racially superior
Define Einstatzgrupen
SS Units responsible for rounding up & murdering Jews in Eastern Europe
Define Eugenics
Racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed ‘unfit’, preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype
Define Final Solution
The term used by the Nazis to describe the extermination of Jews from 1941
Define Genocide
The organised murder of an ethnic group i.e the Jews
Define Ghettos
- An area in a city inhabited by Jews;
- under Nazi rule they were separated from other citizens
- & forced to live in overcrowded conditions
Define social darwinsim
Belief that life is a competition and that the fittest deserve to prosper whilst the unfit deserve to be left behind
What was the Wannsee Conference
Conference held in 1942 at which the Final Solution of Jews in Europe was agreed by top Nazi figures
Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against Political Enemies
150,000 left-wing enemies of the Nazis were imprisoned during 1933-45
Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against Gypsies (Roma & Sinti)
- This groups were first to be murdered because of their ‘racial’ identity
- When WW1 broke out they were deported to Poland
Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against disabled people
- 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
Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against asocials
- people who did not coform to Nazi social ideals e.g the homeless & alcoholics,
- were imprisoned in concentration camps
Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against homosexuals
- 15,000 men were imprisoned in concentration camps,
- because they were viewed as resisting the Nazi desire for all Aryans to breed
Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
January 30th 1933
- Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany,
- immediately imposes a national boycott of Jewish businesses - SA members stood outside shops urging people not to go in
Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
September 15th 1935
- 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