Radialisation of the state - 6th Jan

Question 1

What was the Nazis 3 step plan??

Answer 1

1) Legal revolution1933-34 - consolidate power
2) Creating “New Germany” 1934 - 1937 slowly take control
3) Radicalisation of the state 1938-1939 - completio of army for war and purging nation of racial enemies

Hitler chancellor on 1933 January

Question 2

What were the 3 key elements of the plan??

Answer 2

Social darwinsim/egunist
Lebensraum
Volksgeminschaft - pursauding public

Question 3

What was the Volksgemeinschaft??

Answer 3

Peoples community

Almost exclusive - had to be true Germann loyalty and racially
To protect meant eliminate non german elements (even people)

Question 4

What is lebensraum?

Answer 4

Living space

Mentioned in Mein Kampf
Determination to recover “rightful terittory” + All German speakers
Farmland + Raw materials

Question 5

What is social darwinsim?

Answer 5

Theory that says all individual, groups and people in society are subject to the same laws about natural selections animals and plants.

Strongest will survive

Question 6

What is Eugenics?

Answer 6

The theory that a race or a group could be genetically improved through selective breeding

Question 7

What was Hitlers interpretation of this??
(5)

Answer 7

1) Herrenvolk - master race of aryans
Jews, black and slavic people = inferior
2) Nazis need to purify strongest race by eliminating threatning groups
3) Hitlers social darwinism : All or nothing
4) Racial hygiene used as justification against disabled, roma and other undesirables.
5) No comprimises