Policies towards other groups Flashcards
What did the Nazi racial philosophy teach that some races were?
That some races were Untermensch (sub-human)
What did the scientists at the time believe that people with disabilities or social problems were?
Genetic degenerates
What did Nazi view black people as?
“Threat to purity of the Germanic race”
In the 1920s how many black people were there?
24,000 lived in Germany
What were black people and African-German mixed race children not allowed to attend?
University
Under the Nazis, what did black people no longer have?
Jobs, they were excluded from many aspects of life
How did Hitler prevent further ‘race-polluting’?
In 1937, every identified mixed race child in the Rhineland were forcibly sterilised,
What were severely mentally ill and disabled people seen as?
A burden to society
From 1939 to 1941 what did the Nazis carry out?
A programme of euthanasia known as the T4 programme
In 1933 what law was passed which allowed the sterilisation of anyone deemed ‘unfit’?
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
Between 1933 and 1939 how many people were subject to forced sterilisation?
360,000
Following the outbreak of WW2 in 1939, what happened to the T4 programme and what was established?
It was expanded, with 6 killing centres being established to speed up the process
The model used for killing disabled people was later used in what?
Nazi concentration and extermination camps such as Auschwitz
It is estimated that how many disabled people were murdered under the Nazi regime?
250,000
When did lesbian and gay life begin to thrive, and what was being applied less frequently?
Beginning of the 20th century
Paragraph 175 of the German Penal Code which criminalised homosexuality, was being used less frequently
