17) The radicalisation of the state

• Phases in the development of the nazi state


  1- The legal Revolution

  2- Creating the new Germany

  3- Radicalisation of the state
• The legal Revolution

  1933-34

  Hitler consolidated power but needed support from army and Hindenburg so not too extreme
• Creating the new Germany

  1934-37

  Focus on economic and social coordination. Antisemitism downplayed in Berlin Olympics (1936)
• Radicalisation of the state


  1938-39

  Became bolder and extreme aiming to create a 'racially pure' state
• Social Dawanism


  Nazi idea that there was a hierarchy of races based on natural selection and eugenics.

  Aryans considered the 'master race
• Racial Lebensraum


  Hitler advocated for taking space from 'inferior' people of Poland and Russia
• Decree for the Struggle Against the Gypsy Plague


  1938 - led to many being put in concentration camps
• Reich Central Office for the fight against the gypsy nuisance


  1936
• Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progenies


  1933 - compulsory sterlilisation of 'inferior groups' and banned from having sexual relations with Aryans.

  Led to 400,000 people being sterlaised in 1933-45
• T4 programme


  killed over 5000 children who were mentally or physically diabled in 1939
• Galen (Catholic)


  protested against killing of disabled children

  Led to program being halted in 1941
• asocial colony' in Hashude

  1936 - aimed to re-educate asocial and homosexuals
• Round ups of 'tramps and beggars'


  1933, 1936, 1938

  Some forced to work, others sent to concentration camps
• Punishments of homosexuals


  Purged homosexual organisations and literature in 1933.

  Sent to concentration camps where many were beaten to death
• How many gay prisoners died

  Around 60%
• How many Jehovah's witnesses imprisone

  approximately 10,000
• Policies towards sects


  Most banned in 1933 which were only lifted when they were willing to cooperate with Nazis, which Jehovah's witnesses refused to do
• When did racial policies become more extreme?

  from 1939, because Nazis controlled the police system and army, they had a secure regime and the war had just started so there was nothing more allies could do to stop them.