The Radicalization Of The State Flashcards
What were the three phases in the development of the Nazi regime?
Phase one: The legal revolution 1933-34
Phase two: Creating the new Germany 1934-37
Phase three: The radicalization of the state 1938-39
What was the Legal Revolution 1933-34?
Phase one in the development of the Nazi Regime.
This was where Hitler consolidated his power by legal means.
What was ‘Creating the new Germany’?
Phase two in the development of the Nazi regime.
By August 1934, the Nazi regime was secure but Hitler didn’t have a freehand. He worried about public opinion both home and abroad. Between 1934-37 Hitler avoided confronting powerful groups such as churches and the army. He also knew Germany wasn’t ready for war.
What is the radicalization of the state?
Phase three in the development of the Nazi regime.
By the end of 1937 the Nazi regime was much stronger than it was in 1933. The economy had recovered, the SS completely controlled the police system and Hitler felt that Germany was militarily ready for war. So Hitler took control of the army, sacking off its two most important commanders Blomberg and Fritsch. He also let loose radical persecution of his ‘racial enemies’.
What is Social Darwinism?
Adapted Darwin’s scientific principles of natural biological selection to unscientific theories about human society in order to justify ideas of racial superiority and the theory of eugenics.
Who did Hitler see as the ‘inferior races’?
Jews, black people and Slavs
Who did Hitler see as the ‘master race’?
Aryans
What does ‘Degenerate’ mean?
A person considered to be lacking some usual or expected quality, such as mental physical or moral.
What did Aryans have to ensure they had?
Racial purity
What was Hitlers view of Social Darwinism?
Biologically or Culturally the Jews were to be treated as posing a deadly threat to the German Volk. There would be no compromises and n o exceptions.
What is Volksgemeinshaft?
Peoples community.
What enables you to be a qualified member of the ‘Volk’?
Essential to be a true German, both in terms of loyalty and of racial purity.
What was membership of the Volksgemeinshaft community called?
Volksgenossen
What is Lebnsraum?
Living space
What is Eugenics?
Te unscientific and racist idea that the mental and physical charecteristics of the human race can be improved by controlling who can have children; eugenics use this idea to promote selective breeding as a way to increase so called desireable charecteristics and decrease undesireable ones within a population
Which law was introduced in July 1933?
The law for prevention of hereditary diseased progeny (Sterilization Law)
What did the sterilization law specicfy?
The hereditary diseases which sterilization would need to take place in order to remove:
Feeble-mindedness, Schizophrenia, manic depressive illness, epilepsy etc
What happened in 1936 regarding Sterlization?
X-ray sterilization of women over 38 was introduced due to the higher risk of children being born with disabilities.
How many people were sterilised during the third reich?
400,000
What is the T4 programme?
The Euthanasia programme.
Dr Phillip Bouhler and Karl Brandt used their authority to expand the programme.
What happened to children who had mental illness’ or disabilities?
They were taken to special hospitals and were either starved to death or given the lethal injection. Parents told that they were given the best treatment available.
How many innocent children died under the method of euthanasia?
5000
