Life in Nazi germany - persecution of minority groups

• How were black people tortured?

  sterilisation, experimentation, and brutality
• Who had a systemic programme for their elimination?

  The Jews - the final solution
• What is Untermenschen?


  sub-human
• What was the idea of eugenics

  people with disabilities or social problems genes needed to be eliminated from the german bloodline
• What groups were sterilised?

  The mentally and physically disabled, and children born to African american rhineland soldiers
• What was the Euthanasia Program?

  Between 1939 and 1941 over 100,000 physically and mentally disabled Germans were non consensually killed in secret
• What groups were sent to concentration camps?

  Jews, Homosexuals, prostitutes, Jehovah's Witnesses, gypsies, alcoholics, pacifists, beggars, hooligans and criminals
• What percentage of Germanys gypsies died in Concentration camps during ww2


  85%
• When did the gradual increase on Jews persecution begin?

  1933 saw a gradual increase in persecution, reaching a turning point during Kristallnacht in November 1938:
• How were Jews persecuted in 1933?

  -boycott of Jewish businesses.

  -Books by Jewish authors burnt.

  -Jewish civil servants were sacked.

  -Race science lessons were introduced
• How were Jews persecuted in 1935?


  The Nuremberg Laws:

  
  

  -Stripping Jews of German

  citizenship

  - banning marriage between Jews and Germans.

  -Taking away from Jews all civil and political rights.
• How were Jews persecuted in 1938?


  -Jews could not be doctors

  -Jews had to add the name Israel or Sarah

  -Jewish children were forbidden to go to school.

  -Kristalnach
• How was Kristallnacht a turning point?

  Up until then there had been a progressive erosion of their rights but Jews had not been physically threatened or attacked
• What is persecution?


  Treating someone cruelly because of race or religion
• What was Volksgmeinschaft


  A people's community - Hitler say trd to morally purge German society of anything non german
• What categories were Nazi victims targeted by?

  1-Spiritual - Jehovah's witnesses

  2-Political - communists and gone political opponents

  3-Social - homosexuals and disabled
• How many non -Jews were killed by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945?

  11 million
• What were undesirables?


  Hitlers term for those with mental/physical disabilities, and those who didn't contribute to society
• What is rassenschande


  Race mixing or race defilement
• What is a Mischlinge?


  Mixed race person
• When was Kristallnacht?

  November 9th, 1938
• What happened on Kristallnacht?

  10000 Jewish shops smashed, 100 Jews killed,20000 Jews sent to camps and 200 synagogues burnt
• What is antisemitism?

  The term for the discrimination and hatred of Jews
• What laws were announced on September 15th 1935?

  The Reich citizenship law and the law for protection of German blood and honour (Nuremberg laws)
• When were the Nuremberg laws announced?

  The Nazi party Nuremberg rally
• What was the Reich citizen law?

  It defined a German citizen as someone who is "of German or related blood", this means Jews are defined as a separate race and could not be full citizens of Germany
• What was the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honour?

  A law against race mixing (rassenschande) which banned marriages and sexual relationships between Germans and Jews is
• Who was Jewish according to the Nuremberg laws?

  -A person of 3/4 Jew grandparents
• What were the Einsatzgruppen?


  Mobile killing special forces
• How many Jews were murdered through mobile killing squads?

  2 million
• What happened at Babi yar?

  In 48 hours, 30000 Jews were murdered
• What are ghettos?


  Confined spaces in major cities that were used to contain Jews
• what other religious group were persecuted?

  Salvation army, Christian scientists, seventh day advents church