Persecution of minorities

Question 1

Richard Overy 4 phases

Answer 1

VDSE
- vilification (propaganda to make hate jews)
- discrimination (laws progressively passed limiting rights)
- separation (progressive removal of jews, ‘resettlement’ to east)
- extermination (killing)

Question 2

Between 1933-1939, how many Jews emigrated?

Answer 2

350 000

Question 3

Boycott of Jewish businesses y/m

Answer 3

April 1933

Question 4

Law for restoration of professional public service year impact

Answer 4

1933 evict jews from public service

Question 5

1935 Laws

Answer 5

• military service act: Aryan descent now required in milit
• Nuremburg

Question 6

Nuremburg Laws

Answer 6

• forbade marriage btwn J + n/J
• no citizenship for J
• not defined by religion, but by ancestry (3 grandparents)

Question 7

1938 aryanisation of economics excl Kristall

Answer 7

• all J businesses registered
• no J doctors
• no J lawyers

Question 8

Kristallnacht

Answer 8

Nov 1938
- organised by Goebbels + carried out by SA
- ‘supposedly’ in response to Jewish killing of GER embassy official
- J property destroyed, synagogues burned
- 100 J killed, 20 000 arrested

Question 9

Post-Kristallnacht

Answer 9

• J children totally excluded from schools, J no theatres, concerts, cinemas, parks, restaurants
• Aryanisation of all Jewish businesses = closure/forced sale

Question 10

H: legal?

Answer 10

ilegal since 1871

Question 11

H: death rate of concentration

Answer 11

60% of homosexuals in c camps killed- pink triangle = targeted

Question 12

H: how many arrested

Answer 12

100 000

Question 13

G: why threat

Answer 13

nomadic lifestyle, no traditional employment = not fit volksgemeinschaft

Question 14

Mentally Ill + Physically disabled: why threat

Answer 14

didn’t fit racial perfect utopia w/ no disabilities etc

Question 15

MIPD: sterilisation how many

Answer 15

involuntary sterilisation of 300 000