Nazi racial beliefs

• What did the Nazis believe would strengthen the German state?


  A stronger, more racially pure population
• What concepts were the Nazis' beliefs based on?

  The ideas of eugenics and racial hygiene
• What is eugenics?


  The mistaken science of selective breeding
• How did eugenics relate to Darwin's theories?


  It was an 1880s development of Darwin’s theories applied to producing ‘better’ human beings
• How did the Nazis encourage breeding among the 'best' parents?


  By encouraging them to breed and sterilizing those deemed 'unsuitable'
• What race did the Nazis believe was superior?

  The Aryan race
• What was taught in schools regarding racial hygiene?


  Aryan Germans were encouraged to reproduce only with other 'Aryans'
• What legislation banned mixed-race marriages?

  The Nuremberg Laws of 1935
• What did Hitler express in Mein Kampf regarding races?


  He believed Aryans were the master race and other races were sub-human
• How did Hitler categorize the Slavs, gypsies, and Jewish people in his hierarchy of races?


  Slavs were considered sub-human, with gypsies and Jews at the bottom
• What term did Hitler use to describe those deemed 'unworthy of life'?


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