Nazi: Racial Policies

Question 1

Why did the nazis want Germany to be racially speaking and how did they go about this

Answer 1

• To be racially pure Aryan Germans.
  -Pursuit of racial purity included getting rid of he elderly and disabled.
  -Believed in the eugenic theories current in Weimar Germany and quickly brought laws into force to control breeding
• Increased prosecution of ethnic minorities

Question 2

What was set up on the 1st Jan 1934

Answer 2

Nazis began a compulsory sterlisation programme. Doctors and hospitals had to report those they saw as ‘unfit’ to breed to one of hundreds of Hereditary Health Courts set up all over Germany, which decided who to sterlise.

Sterilisation was supposed for hereditary defects, but it extended to include Jews, Gypsies criminals, and black and mixed race people. The law was widened in June 1935 to allow abortion of the unfit.

Question 3

How many people were reportedly sterilised between 1934-45

Answer 3

Around 400,000

Question 4

How did the nazis initially go about removing Jews

Answer 4

1. Legal separation- removed them from jobs and public sectors
2. Boycotts and bans - on Jewish shops and businesses

Question 5

When were laws brought i that severely restricted Jews and what did they entail

Answer 5

During April 1933