Summary 9 - Nazi policies towards asocials

Question 1

Which groups of people were classified as asocials?

Answer 1

• ‘work-shy’
• beggars
• tramps
• alcoholics
• prostitutes
• homosexuals
• juvenile delinquents

Question 2

Which groups of people were rounded up in September 1933?

Answer 2

Tramps and beggars were rounded up in September 1933.

Question 3

How many tramps and beggars were rounded up in September 1933?

Answer 3

500,000

Question 4

What happened to the tramps and beggars once they were rounded up?

Answer 4

Too many were rounded up so the Nazis could not imprison them.
The ‘orderly’ were forced to work for accommodation.
The ‘disorderly’ were sent to camps.

Question 5

Why was there another round up of tramps and beggars in 1936?

Answer 5

There was another round up tramps and beggars in Berlin in 1936 so that Germany could project the right image at the Olympics of a dynamic hard-working society.

Question 6

Where did many of the tramps and beggars that were rounded up in 1938 end up?

Answer 6

A further round up in 1938 saw many end up in Buchenwald concentration camp. Many did not survive the brutal treatment there.