Racial policies to 1939

Question 1

What was the German word used for ‘biologically inferior’?

Answer 1

Untermenschem

Question 2

What was the idea of the racially pure thriving based on?

Answer 2

social darwinism & survival of the fittest - Aryans superior in every way

Question 3

What effect did mixing with Untermenschem have on Germans?

Answer 3

Said it contaminated Aryans - need selective breeding.

Question 4

from 1934 how many men were sterilised and what law was passed in 1933 to do this?

Answer 4

about 350,000 men - Sterilisation Law 1933 - preventing hereditary disease - ‘simple-minded’, blindness, deafness

Question 5

What racial policies were introduced in 1936?

Answer 5

tramps, work-shy, prostitues, gays etc sent to concentration camps

Question 6

What policies were implemented in 1939?

Answer 6

Euthanasia - Nazis exterminating mentally ill- killed 5,00 handicapped ppl

Question 7

What happened in 1941 regarding euthenasia?

Answer 7

protests forced programme to be stopped but it was continued in secret & extended.

Question 8

what policy was made in 1935 regarding gypsies?

Answer 8

banned from marrying Germans

Question 9

What policy was made in 1938 regarding Gypsies?

Answer 9

‘Decree for the struggle against the Gypsy Plague’ - racial separation

Question 10

How did anti-semetism develop from WW1?

Answer 10

Nazis blamed jews for WW1 defeat & economic crisis in 1920’s

Question 11

What law in 1935 took some Jewish rights?

Answer 11

Nuremburg Race Laws - Jews lost citizenship & unable to marry Aryans

Question 12

What policies were implemented in 1938 taking away rights from Jews?

Answer 12

Jewish doctors banned - Polish Jews expelled - Jews excluded from schools & compulsary sale of Jewish Business.

Question 13

violence surrounding Jews examples?

Answer 13

1938 = attacks on 200,000 Jews in Vienna

1938 = ‘Kristallnacht’ launched - everything Jewish = attacked - 100 Jews killed