Untitled Deck Flashcards
(28 cards)
STEREOTYPE
A generalisation used to describe the characteristics of a whole group of people without considering individual differences
PREJUDICE
A premature judgment or belief formed about a person, group or concept before gaining sufficient knowledge or by selectively disregarding facts. Prejudicial thinking is frequently based on stereotypes and grows out of bias
DISCRIMINATION
The denial of justice, resources and fair treatment of individuals and groups (often based on social identity), through employment, education, housing, banking, political rights, etc
ASSAULT
The act of inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person. An unlawful physical attack, or threat of attack, on an individual, with or without actual injury
RACISM
The belief that human races have distinctive characteristics which determine their respective cultures, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule or dominate others. It means treating someone poorly because of their skin colour, ethnicity or where they come from
GENOCIDE
A term coined by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew, who fled Nazism in 1940. According to the UN Genocide Convention the word means - ‘the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group’
The Immigration RestrictionAct 1901
At the end of the 19th century, Australian colonies had concerns about who was migrating to Australia. With a rise in the number of migrants from China and the Pacific, many colonies passed tough immigration legislation.
Nationalism
(Germany’s pride and power would be restored)
Lebensraum
Communism to be outlawed in Germany and their ideas replaced with German values)
Anti-Semitism
(Subdue Jewish people to restore the pride of the German people)
1933-1935
Anti-Jewish propaganda.
Burning of books by Jewish or communist authors.
Boycotts of Jewish businesses.
Jewish newspapers banned.
Jews were sacked from important jobs. These included lawyers, judges, unions, doctors, media, teachers in non-Jewish schools.
. Definition
Jews are defined as the “other” or “inferior” through legalised discrimination
Isolation
Once individuals are labelled as Jews; they are separated from mainstream society.
Stage 3. Emigration
Jews are encouraged to leave Germany. With the beginning of World War II in 1939, the Nazis apply their racial laws to the countries they invade and occupy. Thus, Jews in these territories also tried to emigrate outside of the Third Reich.
Stage 4. Ghettoization
Jews are forcibly removed to segregated sections of Eastern
European cities called ghettos.
Stage 5. Deportation
Jews are transported from ghettos to concentration camps and
death camps.
Stage 6. Mass murder:
These are civilians killed not in the crossfire of armed combat but murdered for being an “enemy of the state” or for belonging to an undesirable group
Ghetto
sections of towns and cities that the German occupation authorities and their allies used to concentrate, exploit, and starve regional Jewish populations.
Segregation
: the act or policy of separating people from different groups, for example people of different races, religions or sexes, and treating them in a different way
Deportation
the act of forcing somebody to leave a country.
Transportation –
the process of moving individuals from their homes or places of detention to the concentration camps.
Liquidation –
the elimination of a ghetto and its inhabitants by conducting massive deportations to concentration and death camps, or by the mass murder of Jews on the outskirts of towns.
Perpetrator:
a person who commits a crime or does something that is wrong or evil.
Collaborator:
a person who works with another person to create or produce something.
