Treatment of Minorities by Nazi Germany Flashcards
what does Untermenschen mean?
sub-humans
what law stopped minorities from having children?
1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
what to the Nazis do when they sought to eliminate the minorities?
extermination camps and the T4 euthanasia programme
give examples of ‘asocial’ germans
workshy, vagrants, alcoholics, prostitutes, pacifists
what 2 events rounded up many ‘asocial’ Germans?
Beggars Week 1933 and 1938 campaign against the workshy
what 3 things did the nazis do to disabled germans?
sterilisation - 1933 law for prevention of diseased offspring
abortion - after 1935 doctors could terminate pregnancies by force
euthanasia - 1939-41, doctors conducted euthanasia programme
what happened to the Roma in Nazi Germany?
1936 ‘crime prevention’ campaigns - rounded them up and sent to concentration camps
1938 Himmler called for a ‘solution’ to the ‘gypsy question’
what was the Roma holocaust called?
Porajmos
what happened to homosexual men in Nazi Germany?
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’
what happened to Jehovah’s Witnesses in Nazi Germany?
their religion was banned and they were put in concentration camps or mental institutions.
About 250 were executed.
what happened to Political Opponents in Nazi Germany?
sent to c. camps, subjected to flogging, standing cells and pole hanging
what happened to Career Criminals in Nazi Germany?
sent to labour camps, used as ‘prisoner policemen’ where they had privileges to beat and bully the other inmates,
What did the Nazis blame the Jews on?
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.
what happened to Jews on 1 April 1933?
one day boycott of Jewish shops
what dates were Jews banned from certain jobs?
7th April 1933 - government positions,
October 1933, key media jobs,
September 1938 - leal practices,
January 1937 - key professions eg. teaching, accounting, dentistry
what date were Jews banned from serving in the army?
May 1935
What happened to Jews in April to June 1938?
ordered to register all their wealth, property and business to make it easier to confiscate.
What happened to Jews in November 1938?
remaining Jewish businesses closed down
What and when were the Nuremburg laws?
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
What new names did the Jews have to take?
‘Israel’ for men and “Sarah” for women
When were Jews banned from owning land?
September 1933
What happened in the summer of 1935?
Towns and villages put ‘jews not welcome here’ signs in public places
when were Jewish children banned from attending German schools?
November 1938
What happened to jews in January 1939
encouraged to emigrate from Germany
What and when was Kristallnacht?
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
