Social Outsiders

Question 1

What was the first wave of repression against the jews?

Answer 1

• 1935
• April - national boycott of jewish business
• April - quotas on number of jewish students introduced

Question 2

What was the second wave of repression against the jews?

Answer 2

• 1935

* Nuremburg Laws: laws protecting german blood and limiting of citizenship to those only with german blood

Question 3

What was the third wave of repression against the jews? [6 points]

Answer 3

• 1938
• Law making jews have to carry identity cards
• jewish passports invalidated
• jewish doctors lost license to practice
• berlin police release 76 point list on how to harrass jews without breaking the law
• Kristallnacht

Question 4

How were gypsies repressed?

Answer 4

• Nuremburg laws extended ban on interracial marriages

* interior minister identifies gypsies as one of the group’s that might endanger the german race

Question 5

How were black and mixed race people repressed?

Answer 5

• campaign against the rhineland bastards

* 1937 gestapo commission sterilised 500 children- some only 11.

Question 6

Give examples of ‘asocials’

Answer 6

People with disabilities 
Mental illnesses
Homeless 
Drug takers
Prostitutes 
Women with lots of sexual partners
Petty criminals
Gay people
Foreign migrant labour

Question 7

Who did the nazis regard to be ‘community aliens’? [3 points]

Answer 7

1) political opponents
2) jews, gypsies, black people
3) asocials

Question 8

Outline measures that were taken against asocials [3 points]

Answer 8

• 320,000 women sterilised
• 2000 men castrated (habitual criminals)
• 10,000 asocials sent to camps

Question 9

How were gay people repressed?

Answer 9

• special department set up in gestapo to fight homosexuality
• gay people put on a register
• homosexual crimes convictions went from 948 in 1934 to 8562 in 1938.