Racial Persecution

Question 0

What happened in 1934?

Answer 0

Anti-Jewish propaganda increased

Question 1

What happened in 1933?

Answer 1

Official 1 day boycott of Jewish shops

Question 2

What happened in 1935?

Answer 2

Nuremberg Laws

Question 3

What were the Nuremberg laws?

Answer 3

1 - Law For The Protection Of German Blood and Honour

2 - the Reich Citizenship Law made Jews subjects rather than citizens - lost legal rights

Question 4

What did the Law For The Protection of German Blood and Honour ban?

Answer 4

Banned marriages between Jews and Aryans

Question 5

What did the Reich Citizenship Law mean the Jews lost?

Answer 5

They lost legal rights

Question 6

What happened in 1936?

Answer 6

Olympic Games

Question 7

What did Hitler do in 1936 for the Olympic Games?

Answer 7

Anti-Jewish slogans removed from shops and streets

Question 8

What happened in 1937?

Answer 8

Hitler spoke out against the Jews?

Question 9

What 2 things happened in 1938?

Answer 9

Doctors, Dentists and Lawyers forbidden to treat Aryans

Kristallnacht - Night Of Broken Glass

Question 10

What is Kristallnacht?

Answer 10

Consequence of the murder of a German embassy official by a Jewish boy in Paris.

Question 11

As well as most of the synagogues, how many shops and homes were destroyed?

Answer 11

8000

Question 12

How many Jews were killed? How many were arrested?

Answer 12

100 Jews killed and 20,000 arrested

Question 13

What was the fine for the damage caused?

Answer 13

1 billion Reichsmark

Question 14

What happened in 1939?

Answer 14

Jews were encouraged to emigrate.

Question 15

How many Jewish men and boys were sent to concentration camps in 1939?

Answer 15

30,000

Question 16

How were the Jews treated after the Kristallnacht?

Answer 16

They only had the worst jobs - only allowed to go to Jewish schools, it was encouraged to treat Jews badly

Question 17

Apart from Jews, name 3 other undesirable groups.

Answer 17

Gypsies, tramps/ beggars, people with physical disabilities/ mental conditions

Question 18

Why were gypsies undesirable?

Answer 18

They did not have regular jobs and moved around a lot - they were not contributing to the economy.

Question 19

What happened to tramps and beggars?

Answer 19

Arrested and put to forced labour

Question 20

Why were people with disabilities seen as undesirable?

Answer 20

Seen as a threat to Aryan superiority if allowed to have children.

Question 21

What law was put in place to stop people with disabilities from having children?

Answer 21

Compulsory sterilisation

Question 22

By 1937, how many sterilisations had taken place? What later began to happen?

Answer 22

By 1937, 200,000 forced sterilisations.

After, euthanasia, or mercy killing through lethal injections

Question 23

What did racial persecution lead to for the economy and employment?

Answer 23

Economic problems ended. Honour and pride restored. Optimism and self confidence.

Question 24

What did racial persecution lead to in terms of living conditions?

Answer 24

Lived under a police state where their lives were controlled, education, work, leisure time, religion

Question 25

What did racial persecution lead to on terms of honesty?

Answer 25

Difficult to judge what people thought because there was little open opposition as this was destroyed. SS and Gestapo terrified people, censorship and propaganda meant that people did not have the information to make reliable judgements.

Question 26

Name 3 people / things who benefit from racial persecution.

Answer 26

1- those who had been unemployed benefited because Nazi rule created jobs.

2- People who fit the Aryan race

3- German honour and pride - people felt part of a strong country

Question 27

Who/ what did not benefit from racial persecution?

Answer 27

1- peoples lives were controlled in every way - work, religion, leisure time

2- Jews and those who did not fit into the Aryan race