Attitudes to ethnic minorities Flashcards
(23 cards)
What was the percentage of the German population that were practising Jews between 1918 and 1932.
1%
True or false? The Weimar Constitution gave German Jews full rights of citizenship.
true
Why were Jewish legal rights often not effectively enforced?
Nationalist judges were unwilling to uphold Jewish rights
What percentage of Jews had professional occupations between 1918 and 1932 (compared with 25% of the total population)?
75%
What was NOT a reason for the persecution of Jews in the Weimar Republic
The majority of Jews had failed to assimilate into German society
.How many people joined The League of German Defence and Defiance, an influential racist group, before it was banned in 1922?
200,000
Which of the following was NOT a reason why black people chose to come to Germany in the 1920s
Black people from the United States or former African colonies gained full citizenship rights in Germany
True or false? Conservative mayors in Weimar Germany banned jazz music and other performances by black artists.
true
According to the Nazis’ typology of races, how were the Jews and Roma Gypsies designated.
culture destroying races
Which of the following was the first stage in the Nazi persecution of the Jews?
symbolic anti semitism
In what year were the Nuremberg Laws introduced?
1935
Who oversaw the process of economic ‘Aryanisation’ in a series of stages between 1936 and 1939
goering
Which of the following was NOT an outcome of Kristallnacht, which took placed on 9-10 November 1938?
Ordinary Germans began to protest publicly against antisemitic legislation
Why was the policy of encouraging German Jews to emigrate increasing less viable after 1938?
jews had lost their property and couldnt afford to leave
To which island did the Nazis consider deporting Jews between 1938 and 1940?
madagascar
Up to 1941, SS death squads known as Einsatzgruppen murdered 700,000 people behind enemy lines. Which of the following was NOT a reason why this policy was changed?
too many women and children killed
When did the Wannsee Conference agree to implement The Final Solution?
jan 1942
Which of the following groups were subjected to forced sterilisation by the Nazis?
The children of black soldiers and white German women, known as ‘Rhineland Bastards’
Germans with hereditary diseases
Prostitutes and other so-called ‘degenerate Aryans’
What policy did Bishop Galen speak out against in a series of sermons in 1941?
the T4 programme
In 1955, who became the first country to sign a treaty with FRG to send in migrant labourers on fixed contracts (known as ‘guest workers’)
italy
How did labour and social affairs minister Theodor Blank welcome the 1 millionth guest worker to the FRG in October 1964.
encouraged them to bring their families to FRG
Theodor Blank used his speech to celebrate the contribution made by guest workers to economic growth in the FRG. He encouraged more guest workers to bring their families to the FRG, and noted that DM50 million had been allocated for extending family accommodation for guest workers and their dependents.
True or false? Rates of crime amongst guest workers were lower than those of the general population as a whole.
true
Out of a total population of 61 million people in the FRG in 1989, how many were either emigrants or descended from emigrants?
18 mill
