The Treatment Of Minorities

Question 1

How did the Nazis see Germans and how did they see other races ?

Answer 1

Germans seen as ‘socially useful’ however everyone else was a ‘burden on the community’
- worthless and expensive as they didn’t contribute to Volksgemeinschaft

Question 2

Who did the Nazis include as burdens to the community?

Answer 2

Disabled people
Unhealthy
Tramps
Beggars

Question 3

What was the term used to describe the burdens ?

Answer 3

‘Asocial’

Question 4

How did the Nazis view gay people, alcoholics and juvenile delinquents ?

Answer 4

Socially undesirable
Also seen as dangerous and a bad influence and believed they had to be removed from society

Question 5

How did the Nazis persuade others to think like them ?

Answer 5

Propaganda campaigns which ensured German people turned against the ‘undesirable’ groups

Question 6

What were the the more extreme measures taken against the undesirables?

Answer 6

Sterilisation law of 1933
Concentration camps
Euthanasia campaign

Question 7

What was the sterilisation law ?

Answer 7

Passed in July 1933
Allowed Nazis do sterilise people with certain illnesses
Around 350k people sterilised between 1934-45

Question 8

What were the concentration camps ?

Answer 8

Many underriable sent to camps
Included: prostituts, gay people and delinquents
In 1938 Roma and Sinti vagrants added to the list

Question 9

What was the euthanasia campaign ?

Answer 9

In 1939 Nazis secretly exterminated the mentally ill by Euthenasia
They were seen as a threat to the Aryan race and purity
Around 6k people murdered by starvation or lethal injection