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Racial Beliefs And Policies Flashcards

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what were the Aryan race believed to be

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  • the perfect/superior race

- the ‘master’ race

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what was the perfect Aryan like

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  • blonde hair
  • blue eyes
  • tall
  • athletic
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untermenschen

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sub-humans

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when did Nazis begin racial policy

why

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  • from 1933

- reduce number of untermenschen

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when were the Nuremberg laws

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1936

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what did the Nuremberg laws ban

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marriage and sexual relations with Aryans/non Aryans

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what happened to mixed race children under Nuremberg laws

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sterilised

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order of hierarchy of untermenchen

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  1. the Slavs
  2. black people
  3. the ‘Roma’ gypsies
  4. Jews
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policy toward Slavs

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  • made to feel uncomfortable in German society
  • constantly reminded of inferiority
  • not many policies
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pre-war policies to ‘Roma’ policies

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  • from 1933: arrested/sent to concentration camps

- 1938: registered/medically examined

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what happened if Roma gypsies failed their medical examinations

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  • tests designed so many failed

- they’d lose German citizenship and could no longer travel

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wartime policies to Roma gypsies

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  • from 1939: told they’d be deported
  • from 1940: deported to labour camps, some then sent to Chelmno death camps
  • from 1942: Nazis ordered them aall to be deported
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how many German gypsies were killed by the end of the war

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85%

25% of whole European Roma population

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who were the ‘undesireables’

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  • disabled
  • homosexual
  • beggars
  • socialists
  • trade unionists
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why were homosexual men sent to concentration camps

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to sort their ‘disorder’

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16
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why were beggars sent to concentration camps

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to do hard labour

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what law to do w disabled people was passed under Hitler’s dictatorship

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1933 Law for Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring

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what happened to disabled people under the Law for Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring

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  • 300,000 sterilised
  • by 1939: Nazis used euthanasia to kill physically/mentally disabled
  • 100,000 secretly killed 1939-41
19
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what were Jewish people associated with

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  • communism
  • being wealthy
  • blamed for WW1 defeat
20
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why did many people not question the Nazi treatment of Jews

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already disliked them

21
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when was antisemitism made legal

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in 1935 by Nuremberg laws

22
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what happened to Jews passports in 1939

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  • J stamped on passports

- Israel (man) or Sarah (woman) added to man

23
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what happened to Jews in terms of work in 1933

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Nazis made it hard for them to work

24
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example of how Nazis made it hard for Jews to work

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boycotted Jewish businesses

25
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what happened to Jewish people in governemnt

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they were fired

26
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what did the Reich law on citizenship state

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Jews were no longer allowed to be German citizens and rights were revoked

27
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why were Jews prevented from marrying Germans

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the Reich Law For Protection of German Blood And Honour

28
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Kristallnacht

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the Night of the Broken Glass

29
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when was Kristallnacht

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9th November 1938

30
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what was Kristallnacht a response to

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a Jew assassinating a German ambassador in Paris

31
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what happened during Kristallnacht

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  • the SS organised a series of attacks on Jewish communities

- Jewish homes/businesses/synagogues destroyed

32
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why was Kristallnacht a turning point for Jews

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first time they’d been physically harmed, now they had to flee

33
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what were the ghettos

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an area of the city soley occupied by Jews separate from the rest of the city

34
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where were the ghettos first built

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Poland, 1939

35
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what did many people die from in the ghettos

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  • starvation

- disease

36
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when did Jews begin to be gassed

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December 1941 in Chelmno Death Camp

37
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when was the Final Solution decided

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after the Wannsee conference in January 1942

38
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how many death camps built after the Wannsee conference

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6 (with gas chambers) in Poland

39
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how many Jews were killed as part of the the Final Solution

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60% after 1942

40
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public reaction to the Final Solution

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  • no one spoke out to help Jews bc they were scared of the Nazis
  • many people didn’t know what went on at these camps

History: Democracy and Dictatorship//1890-1945 (11 decks)

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