ethnic minorities

• eugenics and social darwinism became popular across the west
• 1% of the German population was jewish
• jews were stereotyped with be greedy and wealthy
• many germans believed they were ethnically superior to Black people , such as Black Jazz musicians
• social daewinism proposed that humans were subject to natural selection , like plants and animals
• eugenics promopted selective breeding to increase desireable heritable traits
• weimar constitution - jews had equal rights
• what percentage of jewish people had professional jobs e.g doctors from 1918-1932?

  75%
• what percentage of department stores were run by jewish-owned businesses?

  80%
• what was the stereotype of the 'Radical Jew'?

  • stemmed from Karl Marx , many Sparcist uprising attendes in 1919 were jewish - threat to Germany
  • wanted communist revolution
• the League of German Defense and Defiance (a racist group) had how many members by 1922?

  200,000
• how many Black people were in Weimar during it's era?

  3,000
• where were Black people wanted? Why did Black people go to these places?

  1924 - Jazz clubs , didn't enforce racial segregation and earnt 4x more than in the USA
• what was the 'Black Horror'?

  fearmongering implemented by Nationalists

  • French troops from Madagascar fought against Germany
  • Nationalist propoganda accused them of raping Aryan women in an attempt to 'pollute' the Aryan race (not true)
• why did Nationalists complain about Jazz music?

  found it to be primitive