The Racial State-Development of Anti-Semitic Policies (1938-40)

Question 1

What was the Anschluss with Austria?

Answer 1

A union with Austria which was banned under the ToV however was a long-term ambition of German nationalists

Question 2

When was Anschluss with Austria achieved?

Answer 2

March 1938

Question 3

When did Hitler fully occupy Czechoslovakia?

Answer 3

In March 1939

Question 4

When did Germany invade Poland?

Answer 4

1st September 1939

Question 5

What did the occupation of Austria lead to?

Answer 5

A rapid acceleration of the economic campaign against Jews as Nazis in Austria were allowed to act against Jews without constraint and led to more radical action in Germany itself

Question 6

What was the Decree in April 1938?`

Answer 6

The Decree of Registration of Jewish Property

Question 7

What did the Decree of Registration of Jewish Property do?

Answer 7

It confiscated all Jewish-owned property worth more than 5000 marks

Question 8

What was the effect of the Decree of Registration of Jewish Property?

Answer 8

In April 1938, there were roughly 40,000 Jewish-owned businesses in Germany; a year later only around 8,000 had avoided being closed down or ‘aryanised’

Question 9

What started to happen from October 1938 for German Jews?

Answer 9

The passports of German Jews had to be stamped with a large ‘J’

Question 10

What was the law in 1939 to strip Jews of their individuality and make them easily identifiable?

Answer 10

All Jewish men had to adopt the additional first name ‘Israel’; All Jewish women took the first name ‘Sarah’