The Racial state Flashcards
Legal discrimination
national boycott organised for 1 April 1933. jewish owned shops, cafes and businesses targeted by SA
3rd Dec 1938 Decree for compulsory closure and sale of all Jewish businesses
Propaganda and indoctrination
posters and signs
Goebbels used skills as Minister of Propaganda and Popular Enlightenment to indoctrinate the German people and indoctrinate youth through education
Terror and violence
SA violence against jews
1936 decline in anti-semitic campaigns because of Berlin Olympics and need avoid international alienation
9-10th November 1938 violent program against Jews- Night of Crystal Glass- Kristallnacht - 20,000 deported to concentration camps
Forced emigration
1938 developed forced emigration
1939 jewish population 234000 and emigrated 78,000
therefore estimated Nazi persecution led to half Jewish population leaving before war
Genocide
Jewish ghettos e.g. Warsaw
Wannsee Conference 20th January 1942 - ‘Final solution’
1942 course of a number of camps developed into mass extermination centres in Poland- Auschwitz
6 million jews murdered
Gypsies
1933 25000- 30,000 Gypsies in Germany began to suffer
225,000-500,000 exterminated