minorities

• who did the nazi party discriminate against?

  • roma and sinti people
  • people with mental or physical disabilities
  • homosexuals
• what happened to roma and sinti people?

  sent to concentration camps as they were viewed as racially inferior
• what happened to people with disabilities?

  sterilised as they didnt want them to reproduce as they wanted the aryan race
• what happened to homosexuals?

  sent to concentration camps in thousands
• what did himmler set up in 1936?

  central office for the combating of homosexuality and abortion
• what did the nazis do to jewish?

  in 1933 caused a national boycott of jewish businesses resulting in violence
• what did the nazi realise they had to do?

  use the legal system to persecute jewish minorities
• when were the Nuremberg laws?

  1935
• what did the nuremberg laws do?

  remove legal rights of the jewish and encouraged aryan germans to see them as inferior
• what did the nazis belive?

  jewish were biologically different
• what did nuremberg laws ban?

  • marriage between a jewish and non jewish
  • sexual relations between a jewish and non jewish
  • jewish from being a german citizen
• what were some jewish given?

  passports to leave germany but preventing them from returning
• what were all jewish forced to do?

  close or sell their businesses and were banned from all employment
• what happened to jewish by 1938?

  all jewish children banned from attending german schools and couldnt go to many public places such as theatres and exhibitions
• what happened in 1938?

  kristallnacht
• when was kristallnact?

  1938
• what does kristallnact stand for?

  night of the broken glass
• what caused kristallnacht?

  in november 1938, a german was murdered in paris by a jewish man
• what happened during kristallnacht?

  • anti jewish riots throughout germany
  • thousands of jewish shops were smashed into
  • almost every synagogue was burnt down
  • thousands of jewish arrested and sent to concentration camps
• what did the nazis claim about kristallnacht?

  it was spontaneous from the german public in reaction to the paris murder
• what actually did the nazis do before kristallnacht?

  planned by the nazi government and few german citizens participated
• what did kristallnacht mean for jewish?

  was a turning point as it was the first widespread act of violence toward them