Nazi Germany - Minorities

Question 1

Define aryan

Answer 1

Nordic or Anglo-Saxon races that the Nazis believed were racially superior

Question 2

Define Einstatzgrupen

Answer 2

SS Units responsible for rounding up & murdering Jews in Eastern Europe

Question 3

Define Eugenics

Answer 3

Racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed ‘unfit’, preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype

Question 4

Define Final Solution

Answer 4

The term used by the Nazis to describe the extermination of Jews from 1941

Question 5

Define Genocide

Answer 5

The organised murder of an ethnic group i.e the Jews

Question 6

Define Ghettos

Answer 6

• An area in a city inhabited by Jews;
• under Nazi rule they were separated from other citizens
• & forced to live in overcrowded conditions

Question 7

Define social darwinsim

Answer 7

Belief that life is a competition and that the fittest deserve to prosper whilst the unfit deserve to be left behind

Question 8

What was the Wannsee Conference

Answer 8

Conference held in 1942 at which the Final Solution of Jews in Europe was agreed by top Nazi figures

Question 9

Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against Political Enemies

Answer 9

150,000 left-wing enemies of the Nazis were imprisoned during 1933-45

Question 10

Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against Gypsies (Roma & Sinti)

Answer 10

• This groups were first to be murdered because of their ‘racial’ identity
• When WW1 broke out they were deported to Poland

Question 11

Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against disabled people

Answer 11

• The Law for the Protection of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring (1933) permitted the compulsory sterlization of those with hereditary conditions
• In 1939, Aktion T4 scheme was launched in which disabled children were murdered

Question 12

Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against asocials

Answer 12

• people who did not coform to Nazi social ideals e.g the homeless & alcoholics,
• were imprisoned in concentration camps

Question 12

Describe the Nazi policy & treatment used against homosexuals

Answer 12

• 15,000 men were imprisoned in concentration camps,
• because they were viewed as resisting the Nazi desire for all Aryans to breed

Question 13

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
January 30th 1933

Answer 13

• Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany,
• immediately imposes a national boycott of Jewish businesses - SA members stood outside shops urging people not to go in

Question 14

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
September 15th 1935

Answer 14

• 2 Laws:
• The Reich Citizenship Law, saying Jews are no longer German Citizens
• The Law for the Protection of German Blood & Honour, which forbids marraige between Jews & Germans

Question 15

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
July 1938

Answer 15

The Evian Conference, world leaders refused to accept more Jewish refugees to their countries

Question 16

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
August 17th 1938

Answer 16

A law is passed forcing Jewish women to add Sarah & men to add Israel to their names, which must appear on all new legal documents inc passports

Question 17

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
December 1938

Answer 17

• A law is passed confiscating all Jewish businesses

Question 18

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Legal discrimination
August 1941

Answer 18

• voluntary emigration of German Jews forbidden

Question 19

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
1936

Answer 19

• Jewish doctors cannot work in govt hospitals & Jewish patients cannot use these hospitals

Question 20

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
October 5th 1938

Answer 20

• A law is passed saing Jewish passports have to be stamped with a large red ‘‘J’’

Question 21

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
September 1st 1939

Answer 21

• The German army invades Poland
• All Jews in Poland have to wear a star of David

Question 22

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
November 23rd 1939

Answer 22

• All Jews in occupied Poland have to wear a yellow star on their clothes

Question 23

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Segregation
April 30th 1940

Answer 23

• Jewish people in Poland are forced to move into ghettos

Question 24

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
September 1939

Answer 24

• Jews cannot be out after 8pm
• Jews are forbidden from owning radios

Question 25

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Bullying & Spiradic Violence
June 22 1941

Answer 25

• Germany invades USSR - Operation Barbarossa

Question 26

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
November 9th 1938

Answer 26

• Kristallnacht - this is a government permitted attack on Jews in Germany & Austria
• Jewish homes, businesses & synagogues are vandalised & burned
• Jewish property is stolen (looting)
• 28,000 German & Austrian Jewish men are deported to concentration camps

Question 27

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
April 1940

Answer 27

• Himmler orders the building of the first (of 6 six total) concentration camp at Auschwitz

Question 28

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
May 1941

Answer 28

• Hitler creates 6 Einsatzgruppen (killing squads)
• These squads are given orders to follow the German army into Russia & shoot all Jews & Communists

Question 29

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
September 29-30 1941

Answer 29

• There is a mass murder of 34,000 Jews near Kiev, carried out by a German Einsatzgruppe & Ukranian police

Question 30

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
January 20 1942

Answer 30

• Senior German officials meet outside Berlin at a country house in Wannsee
• The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the ‘‘final solution’’ for the Jewish problem

Question 31

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
Feb 1942

Answer 31

• the first gassing of Jews is carried out at Auschwitz
• By spring, death camps have been established at Belzec, Treblinka & Sobibor

Question 32

Explain one of the Nazi Racial Policies towards Jews
Genocide
1942-44

Answer 32

• Transportation of Jews from around Europe to death camps
• 6 million are murdered, of which 1 million are Einsatzgruppen massacres