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Question 1

Why did the Nazis pursue Racial Purity?

Answer 1

They wanted Germany to be populated by Aryans by removing those that they believed were impure

Question 2

How did the Nazis pursue their belief in eugenics?

Answer 2

They quickly brought laws into force to control breeding and pursued the violent persecution of ethnic minorities in order to create a pure Aryan race

Question 3

What did Nazis begin on the 1st of January 1934?

Answer 3

They introduced a sterilization programme where Hereditary Health courts would be informed of those seen as ‘unfit’ to breed. Despite only being for heredity defects, sterilization was also used for all ethnic groups and criminals.

Question 4

How did Nazis widen the law in June 1935?

Answer 4

They allowed abortion of the unfit.

Question 5

Between 1934 - 45, how many people were estimated to have been sterilised?

Answer 5

Around 400,000

Question 6

Did Nazis start to make Germany Jew-free right away in 1933?

Answer 6

No, Hitler didn’t have that kind of power yet. Instead, they worked towards the ‘Final Solution’ and ‘Jewish problem’ by degrees.

Question 7

What were the degrees in which Nazis began to make Germany Jew free?

Answer 7

Propaganda, separating Jews from the community, legally and through bans and boycotts.

Question 8

When was the first national boycott?

Answer 8

1st April 1933

Question 9

What happened during April 1933?

Answer 9

A series of laws were to restrict the number of Jewish university students, banned them from sporting groups, and overall excluded them from working for newspapers or as financial advisors.

Question 10

When were the Nuremberg Race Laws introduced?

Answer 10

1935

Question 11

What were the Nuremberg Race Laws?

Answer 11

More laws to exclude Jews from many areas of life ie anyone with 3/4 Jewish grandparents was Jewish, organisations began to exclude Jews, a yellow star was placed on Jewish shops, propaganda urged the idea of separation to prevent contamination, marked Jews as dirty,

Question 12

What was one of the important Nazi measures used in association to the Jews?

Answer 12

Kristallnacht (‘Night of Broken Glass’ in 1938) the first large-scale organised act of violence against synagogues and Jewish people.

Question 13

What did the Nazis encourage the Jews to do at first and what was the impact of this?

Answer 13

They encouraged the Jews to leave, they took a 30-50 percent ‘flight tax’

Question 14

How many Jews left Germany between 1933-39?

Answer 14

450,000

Question 15

What event took place on March 11th 1938?

Answer 15

Germany ‘liberated’ Austria and imposed the same rules of the 185,000 Jewish Austrians.

Question 16

What special SS unit was produced as a result of the 1939 invasion of Poland?

Answer 16

Einsatzgruppen was set up and their official job was to kill Polish political resistance leaders, they also began the mass murder of Jews, killing 2 of the 6 million that died in the holocaust.

Question 17

What had the Einsatzgruppen done by 1941?

Answer 17

They began mass murdering Jews and 2 million of the 6 million Jews killed the Holocaust

Question 18

Who were kept in ghettos?

Answer 18

Polish people, Jews and gypsies who weren’t shot. ie) in places like Warsaw etc.

Question 19

What were the ghettos like?

Answer 19

They were badly overcrowded, food and medicine kep to a minimum, electricity and water only available for a few hours a day.

Question 20

How were the ghettos used to further dehumanise the Jews?

Answer 20

Bus trips were ran through the ghettos via the ‘Strength through Joy’ organisation to display how Jewish people lived.

Question 21

What were the concentration camps like?

Answer 21

The conditions were appalling, mistreatment by guards, crematoriums used to burn those who died there.

Question 22

What was the final solution?

Answer 22

It was decided at the Wannsee conference on the 20th of January 1942 for death camps to be set up in places like Belize, Chemlo etc. to exterminate all remaining Jews in Europe.