Radicalisation of the state 1933-41

Question 1

reasons to exclude the mentally/ physically ill

Answer 1

-‘science of eugenics’- selective breeding
-seen as useless/ burden/ expensive
-Hitler called them ‘useless mouths’

Question 2

Sterilisation

Answer 2

-July 1933 introduced law for prevention of hereditary diseased progeny (compulsory sterilisation)
-1935 permitted abortion for those deemed suitable for those sterilisation
-60% deemed feeble minded
-400k sterilised= court to decide took 10 mins per case

Question 3

euthanasia

Answer 3

-oct 1939
-1939 a dad wrote to Hitler asking to kill his disabled son. Bouhler gave letter to Hitler
-euthanasia programme, hospitals would kill children via starvation/ lethal injection (5000 kids)
-T4 (Oct 1939)= ethanaisa organisation
-1941 T4 ended due to protest

Question 4

who were asocials?

Answer 4

-workshy, criminals, beggars, gay, etc

Question 5

treatment of asocials

Answer 5

-homeless sent to camps
-Sept 1933= ‘beggars week’ 100k tramps taken into custody
-June 1938= 11k workshy sent to Buchenwald

Question 6

treatment of gays

Answer 6

-Homosexuality was previously outlawed 1871
-May 1933 Nazi students attacked institute of sex research and seized names etc of gay ppl
-1934 NOLK attacked gay ppl e.g. Rohm
-22k men imprisoned (1936-8)
-1936 Reich Office for combating gay & abortion
-100k arrested, 50k convicted
-60% died in camps bc of beatings

Question 7

ban on religious sects

Answer 7

Nov 1933- lifted when the cooperated

Question 8

JW and Nazis

Answer 8

-only religious group to show uncompromising hostility as could only obey Jehovah
-30k members
-1945 10k imprisoned

Question 9

Seventh day adventists

Answer 9

-saw the Nazis as Ger’s rebirth
-removed ‘jewish’ lang out of services
-didn’t help those seen as a ‘threat’

Question 10

Views on Roma and Sinti

Answer 10

-hard to track down
-sinti= ger & west europe
-roma= austria, balkans, East europe

Question 11

treatment of roma and sinti

Answer 11

-genocide
-1935 nuremburg laws= ‘infallibly of alien blood’
-1936 Reich Central Office for fight against Gypsy Nuisance
-1938 Himmler directive= against gypsy ‘plague’
-1939 deported to camps

Question 12

cause for these ideas

Answer 12

-social darwinism
-lebensraum
-volksgemeinschaft