Treatment of minorities

• What did Hitler believe about Jews

  Were contaminating the blood of Germans
• What are the theories as to why Hitler began hating the Jews

  Hitler was jealous of the Jews from the time he spent in Vienna as a homeless person

  Hitler supposedly contracted a sexual disease from a Jewish prostitute

  Hitler began to read anti-semetic propaganda while in Austria

  He was rejected from university by a Jewish lecturer

  Hitlers mother was treated by a Jewish doctor before she died
• What did Hitler blame on the Jews

  All the problems in Germany
• What did Germany lose because of the Jews according to Hitler

  The first world war which was a result of a Jewish conspiracy
• What did Germany have to sign which was a jewish conspiracy according to Hitler

  The treaty of Versailles
• What ruined the German economy which was blamed on the Jews

  The hyper-inflation of 1923 which was an attempt to destroy Germany
• What was the first method Hitler used to intimidate the Jews

  Was to stop Germans from buying from Jewish shops, they were marked with a yellow Star of David or had ’juden‘ written in the shop window
• Why did Hitler organise the shop boycotts

  To bankrupt Jewish businesses
• What happened on bus, train and park benches

  Jews had to sit on seats marked for them
• What was the ‘law for the protection of German blood and German honour’ (September 1935) nicknamed

  The Nuremberg Laws. 1935
• What were Jews forbidden to have in the Nuremberg laws

  They were not allowed to be citizens, have the right to vote or to hold public office
• How was marriage affected with the Nuremberg laws

  Marriage between Jews and citizens of Germany was forbidden
• How was relationships affected by the Nuremberg laws

  Sexual relations outside of marriage between Jews and citizens were forbidden
• What were Jews also forbidden to do because of the Nuremberg laws

  Forbidden to display the national flag or national colours
• Why did the campaign against the Jews stop briefly

  Because of the Berlin olympics, although once the foreign press had left, it started up again
• Why did kristallnacht happen

  Because a Nazi diplomat was shot deaf by a Jew in Paris
• What happened during Kristallnacht

  10th November the campaign started with the destruction and looting of 10,000 shops owned by Jews

  Homes and synagogues were set on fire and left to burn because the fire service had sworn an oath to Hitler