Nazi radical policies

Question 1

How did Europe’s history influence racial prejudice against Jewish communities?

Answer 1

.Long history of Christian antisemitic attacks on Jewish
communities
. These old prejudices fused with pseudo-scientific racial
ideas began to influence extremists

Question 2

How were radical ideas influential in Nazi activities?

Answer 2

Aimed to create a ‘racially pure’ master race in an expanded and dominant Germany

Question 3

What was key to establishing a strong Germany?

Answer 3

‘Racial’ strength of Aryan Germans

Question 4

What did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 ban?

Answer 4

Intermarriage; Jewish people were removed from German citizenship

Question 5

What occurred in 1938?

Answer 5

. Violent attacks on Jewish people and their property following Anschluss - 45,000 Austrian Jews forced to emigrate
. Kristallnacht: attacks on businesses and synagogues, 25,000 Jews sent to concentration camps

Question 6

What Nazi policy focused on uniting ‘racially pure’ Germans?

Answer 6

Volksgemeinschaft

Question 7

How were people with disabilities discriminated against?

Answer 7

. Nazis wanted people who were classified as ‘racially fit’ in the Third Reich
. 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring permitted compulsory sterilisation for those with hereditary conditions - murdered babies and children

Question 8

How were gay people treated in Nazi Germany?

Answer 8

. Subject to persecution partly because they were viewed as
resisting the Nazis desire for all Aryans to breed
. Approximately 15,000 German gay people were imprisoned