The treatment of minority groups in Nazi Germany

• Treatment of minority groups in Nazi Germany

  Anti Jewish propaganda was spread in Germany and it actively encourage people to discriminate against the Jews
• Anti Jewish propaganda was spread in Germany and it actively encourage people to discriminate against the Jews
• In the posters the Jews were blamed for losing WW1
• In schools teachers were told to humiliate Jewish children in class
• By 1938 Jewish children were banned from attending school
• Pupils were also taught to be hostile to Jewish people
• All Jews who worked in the Government or as lecturers, doctors or lawyers were sacked
• Jewish people had to carry an identity card which was stamped with the letter 'J'
• All Jewish shops were boycotted
• The SA actively encouraged people not to purchase goods from Jewish shops and many were vandalised
• In 1935 Jews were forbidden to join the army
• In 1935 Nuremberg Law for protection of German blood and honour passed
• This banned marriage between Jews and non Jews
• In 1935 Jews were denied the right to be Germany citizens and they lost the right to vote
• The Government only gave contracts to pure Germans, not Jewish businesses
• In 1938 lots of Jewish homes/shops and synagogues were destroyed
• This was called Krystallnacht (the night of the broken glass) and many Jews were killed or sent to concentration camps
• By late 1939 Jews were forced to wear the Star of David on their clothing so they could be identified more easily
• Many homosexuals were castrated as a form of control, treatment or punishment
• From 1935 Roma Gypsies and Jehovah's Witnesses were rounded up and taken to concentration camps
• The disabled and mentally ill were also persecuted as the Nazis passed a law that allowed forced sterilisation of men and women, who were deemed likely to produce 'inferior' children
• The Nazis also set up a programme of Euthanasia for the mentally ill and disabled
• After 1933 almost 400 black Germans were part of a compulsory sterilisation programme
• This meant they could no longer have children