Asocials

Question 1

What philosophy did Hitler follow?

Answer 1

Social Darwinism - Survival of the fittest

Question 2

Steps to radicalisation

Answer 2

1933 - consolidating power
1934 - power but not full control - public opinion
1938 - radicalisation

Question 3

MENTALLY / PHYSICALLY DISABLED
What did the Nazis do?

Answer 3

Sterilisation law 1933

Question 4

Sterilisation Law
Amount of people?

Answer 4

400,000

Question 5

Sterilisation Law
Who?
2

Answer 5

-60% idiocy - prevent criminality
-Women - prevent birth defects (counteracts mass production of babies)

Question 6

Sterilisation Law
Who favoured it?

Answer 6

Right wing judges and health courts

Question 7

T4 Programme
What?

Answer 7

Euthanasia

Question 8

T4 Programme
When

Answer 8

1939-1941

Question 9

T4 Programme
Support

Answer 9

Yes - people thanked Hitler
No - Church Opposition Archbishop Galen said it went against gods intervention

Question 10

T4 Programme
Who and when stopped it

Answer 10

1941
Archbishop Galen

Question 11

ASOCIALS/TRAMPS
timeline

Answer 11

1933 - those who could work, forced. Those who couldn’t, camps.
1936 - Olympics. Sent away to an ‘asocial’ colony to be re-educated. Many didn’t come back out
1938 - sent to ‘Buchenwald’ camp

Question 12

HOMOSEXUALITY
When did it flourish? Meaning?

Answer 12

Under Weimar Germany
People knew who the gay people were

Question 13

HOMOSEXUALITY
1934 and stats

Answer 13

Gestapo made lists of gay people - public condemnation
100,000 arrested, 50,000 convicted
(same year Ernst Rohm killed for being gay)

Question 14

HOMOSEXUALITY
Historian Richard Evans

Answer 14

Himmler had ‘pathological fear of Homosexuality’
Gustapo had its own ‘gay hunters’

Question 15

HOMOSEXUALITY
How likely to die in camps?

Answer 15

50%

Question 16

RELIGIOUS SECTS
Included?

Answer 16

Jehovas Witnesses
Mormons
7th Day Adventists

Question 17

RELIGIOUS SECTS
Jehovas witnesses
Why were they a threat?

Answer 17

Small (30,000) united group who believed only Jehovah could lead them)
Regime did not break their faith

Question 18

RELIGIOUS SECTS
Jehovas witnesses
Refusal to Hitler

Answer 18

Refuse to swear oath of loyalty
Persecution is test of their faith

Question 19

RELIGIOUS SECTS
Seventh Day Adventists
Views?

Answer 19

Loved Nazis - rebirth of Germany
-refused service to Jews

Question 20

GYPSIES
How many persecuted?

Answer 20

30,000

Question 21

GYPSIES
What law applied to them?

Answer 21

Nuremberg

Question 22

GYPSIES
Himmler

Answer 22

Described them as ‘Gypsie Plague’