Treatment of Minorities by Nazi Germany

Question 1

what does Untermenschen mean?

Answer 1

sub-humans

Question 2

what law stopped minorities from having children?

Answer 2

1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring

Question 3

what to the Nazis do when they sought to eliminate the minorities?

Answer 3

extermination camps and the T4 euthanasia programme

Question 4

give examples of ‘asocial’ germans

Answer 4

workshy, vagrants, alcoholics, prostitutes, pacifists

Question 5

what 2 events rounded up many ‘asocial’ Germans?

Answer 5

Beggars Week 1933 and 1938 campaign against the workshy

Question 6

what 3 things did the nazis do to disabled germans?

Answer 6

sterilisation - 1933 law for prevention of diseased offspring
abortion - after 1935 doctors could terminate pregnancies by force
euthanasia - 1939-41, doctors conducted euthanasia programme

Question 7

what happened to the Roma in Nazi Germany?

Answer 7

1936 ‘crime prevention’ campaigns - rounded them up and sent to concentration camps
1938 Himmler called for a ‘solution’ to the ‘gypsy question’

Question 8

what was the Roma holocaust called?

Answer 8

Porajmos

Question 9

what happened to homosexual men in Nazi Germany?

Answer 9

in 1933, Hitler raided the Institute for Sex Research. 15000 LGBTQ+ men were sent to concentration camps. some were castrated, others experimented on to find a ‘cure’

Question 10

what happened to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany?

Answer 10

their religion was banned and they were put in concentration camps or mental institutions.
About 250 were executed.

Question 11

what happened to Political Opponents in Nazi Germany?

Answer 11

sent to c. camps, subjected to flogging, standing cells and pole hanging

Question 12

what happened to Career Criminals in Nazi Germany?

Answer 12

sent to labour camps, used as ‘prisoner policemen’ where they had privileges to beat and bully the other inmates,

Question 13

What did the Nazis blame the Jews on?

Answer 13

defeat in WWI
plotting to take over the world
German economic crises 1923 and 1929

ordinary germans thought they had too much influence eg. dominated professions like banking and law.

Question 14

what happened to Jews on 1 April 1933?

Answer 14

one day boycott of Jewish shops

Question 15

what dates were Jews banned from certain jobs?

Answer 15

7th April 1933 - government positions,
October 1933, key media jobs,
September 1938 - leal practices,
January 1937 - key professions eg. teaching, accounting, dentistry

Question 16

what date were Jews banned from serving in the army?

Answer 16

May 1935

Question 17

What happened to Jews in April to June 1938?

Answer 17

ordered to register all their wealth, property and business to make it easier to confiscate.

Question 18

What happened to Jews in November 1938?

Answer 18

remaining Jewish businesses closed down

Question 19

What and when were the Nuremburg laws?

Answer 19

September 1935
Reich citizenship law - Jews not Reich citizens
Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour - forbade marriage between Jews and other races

Question 20

What new names did the Jews have to take?

Answer 20

‘Israel’ for men and “Sarah” for women

Question 21

When were Jews banned from owning land?

Answer 21

September 1933

Question 22

What happened in the summer of 1935?

Answer 22

Towns and villages put ‘jews not welcome here’ signs in public places

Question 23

when were Jewish children banned from attending German schools?

Answer 23

November 1938

Question 24

What happened to jews in January 1939

Answer 24

encouraged to emigrate from Germany

Question 25

What and when was Kristallnacht?

Answer 25

9-10 November 1938
caused by the murder of a Nazi diplomat by a Jew in Paris
over 400 synagogues, 7500 shops and many homes were destroyed
91 Jews killed, 20,000 sent to c. camps
Nazis fined the Jews 1 billion marks for the damage and made them clean the streets in the aftermath