Racial Beliefs And Policies

Question 1

what were the Aryan race believed to be

Answer 1

• the perfect/superior race

- the ‘master’ race

Question 2

what was the perfect Aryan like

Answer 2

• blonde hair
• blue eyes
• tall
• athletic

Question 3

untermenschen

Answer 3

sub-humans

Question 4

when did Nazis begin racial policy

why

Answer 4

• from 1933

- reduce number of untermenschen

Question 5

when were the Nuremberg laws

Answer 5

1936

Question 6

what did the Nuremberg laws ban

Answer 6

marriage and sexual relations with Aryans/non Aryans

Question 7

what happened to mixed race children under Nuremberg laws

Answer 7

sterilised

Question 8

order of hierarchy of untermenchen

Answer 8

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

Question 9

policy toward Slavs

Answer 9

• made to feel uncomfortable in German society
• constantly reminded of inferiority
• not many policies

Question 10

pre-war policies to ‘Roma’ policies

Answer 10

• from 1933: arrested/sent to concentration camps

- 1938: registered/medically examined

Question 11

what happened if Roma gypsies failed their medical examinations

Answer 11

• tests designed so many failed

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

Question 12

wartime policies to Roma gypsies

Answer 12

• 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

Question 13

how many German gypsies were killed by the end of the war

Answer 13

85%

25% of whole European Roma population

Question 14

who were the ‘undesireables’

Answer 14

• disabled
• homosexual
• beggars
• socialists
• trade unionists

Question 15

why were homosexual men sent to concentration camps

Answer 15

to sort their ‘disorder’

Question 16

why were beggars sent to concentration camps

Answer 16

to do hard labour

Question 17

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

Answer 17

1933 Law for Prevention of Hereditary Diseased Offspring

Question 18

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

Answer 18

• 300,000 sterilised
• by 1939: Nazis used euthanasia to kill physically/mentally disabled
• 100,000 secretly killed 1939-41

Question 19

what were Jewish people associated with

Answer 19

• communism
• being wealthy
• blamed for WW1 defeat

Question 20

why did many people not question the Nazi treatment of Jews

Answer 20

already disliked them

Question 21

when was antisemitism made legal

Answer 21

in 1935 by Nuremberg laws

Question 22

what happened to Jews passports in 1939

Answer 22

• J stamped on passports

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

Question 23

what happened to Jews in terms of work in 1933

Answer 23

Nazis made it hard for them to work

Question 24

example of how Nazis made it hard for Jews to work

Answer 24

boycotted Jewish businesses

Question 25

what happened to Jewish people in governemnt

Answer 25

they were fired

Question 26

what did the Reich law on citizenship state

Answer 26

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

Question 27

why were Jews prevented from marrying Germans

Answer 27

the Reich Law For Protection of German Blood And Honour

Question 28

Kristallnacht

Answer 28

the Night of the Broken Glass

Question 29

when was Kristallnacht

Answer 29

9th November 1938

Question 30

what was Kristallnacht a response to

Answer 30

a Jew assassinating a German ambassador in Paris

Question 31

what happened during Kristallnacht

Answer 31

- the SS organised a series of attacks on Jewish communities | - Jewish homes/businesses/synagogues destroyed

Question 32

why was Kristallnacht a turning point for Jews

Answer 32

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

Question 33

what were the ghettos

Answer 33

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

Question 34

where were the ghettos first built

Answer 34

Poland, 1939

Question 35

what did many people die from in the ghettos

Answer 35

- starvation | - disease

Question 36

when did Jews begin to be gassed

Answer 36

December 1941 in Chelmno Death Camp

Question 37

when was the Final Solution decided

Answer 37

after the Wannsee conference in January 1942

Question 38

how many death camps built after the Wannsee conference

Answer 38

6 (with gas chambers) in Poland

Question 39

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

Answer 39

60% after 1942

Question 40

public reaction to the Final Solution

Answer 40

- 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