nazi policies for minorities

• law in july 1933 about minorities

  sterilisation law

  nazis could sterilise those with certain illnesses e.g. 'simple-mindedness' or 'chronic alcoholism'

  1934-45 - 350,000 compulsorily sterilised
• use of concentration camps

  'undesirables' sent to camps = prostitutes, homosexuals, juvenile delinquents

  1938 = roma, sinti, vangrants and beggars added to list
• campaign regarding minorities in 1939

  euthanasia campaign

  secretly euthanised the mentally ill

  6,000 disabled babies, children and teens murdered by starvation/lethal injection
• treatment of slavics/gypsies

  untermenschen = sub-humans

  1933 = gypsies arrested

  1938 = banned from travelling in groups

  1939 = orders to deport all gypsies
• selective breeding


  prevented anyone not aryan from having children

  ss = part of this drive (recruited men of aryan blood : tall, fair-haired, fair-skinned, blue-eyed) - only allowed to marry women of aryan blood : mixed marriages/relationships not allowed
• 1st april 1933

  boycott of jewish shops

  members of sa painted star of david
• nuremberg laws

  15th september 1935

  reich citizenship law = only those of german blood were citizens

  jews lost their right to vote

  law for the protection of german blood = forbode sexual relations between jews and germans

  german citizens = encouraged to divorce jewish partners
• what happened post-kristellnacht

  kristellnacht = 9th november 1938

  jews fined 1b reichsmarks

  no longer could own/manage businesses/shops or employ people

  jewish children expelled/banned from attending aryan schools
• jews 1935 and 1936

  may 1935 = no longer drafted

  1936 = banned from authoritarian positions
• nazi reasons for selective breeding

  disabled/gay people = 'undesirables' of society = burden on society

  importance of family life and producing children

  roma/sinti = non-aryan so threatened racial purity

  travelled across country + no fixed home = threatened nazi view of stable family life + accused of being work shy
• nazi reasons for treatment of minorities

  hitler's theory of race = bible showed only 2 races : aryans and jews = master race (herrenvolk) and subhumans

  god = special purpose for aryans

  aryans = volksgemeinschaft

  drive slavs out of eastern europe = more land for germany

  unhealthy/disabled/homosexual = not contribute to volksemeinschaft = worthless + expensive

  remove from society
• nazi reasons for anti-semitism

  links back to middle-ages

  diff. religions = diff. customs = some christians blamed jews for death of christ

  jews = wealthy = caused resentment and jealousy

  hitler despised wealth of viennese jews and blamed them for germany's defeat in ww1, 1923 hyperinflation and 1929 depression

  create pure racial state

  jews = evil force and world conspiracy