racial policy

• a 1930's beer mat said 'whoever is buying from a jew is a national traitor'
• Boycott of Jewish shops 1st April 1933: international backlash and not well received so only lasted a day.
• Law for the restoration of professional civil service on 7th April 1933: Jews dismissed from public positions
• Jews emigration of 37,000 in 1933
• Nazi's used 'social Darwinism' with the Aryan race being superior
• A sterilisation law of 1933: law for prevention of hereditary diseased offspring which allowed sterilisation of 'simple-minded', alcoholics, schizophrenic and blind
• from 1934, 350,000 men sterilised
• law against dangerous habitual criminals in 1933 which introduced compulsory castration for sexual offenders.
• law in 1935 led to arrest of 50,000 homosexuals
• by 1936 work-shy, tramps, beggars, prostitutes, homosexuals sent to concentration camps
• the euthanasia campaign in 1939 killed 5000 youth. by 1941, protests forced the programme to stop.
• by 1935 Gypsies banned from marrying Germans
• by 1938 'decree for the struggle against the gypsy plague' issued
• by 1939, 30,000 gypsies deported to Poland
• Antisemitism was not new and Jews were portrayed inferior
• 1935 Nuremburg laws: Jews lost citizenship and marriage between Jews and Germans forbidden.
• 1938: Jewish doctors not allowed to practise
• 1938: Polish jews expelled
• 1938: Jews excluded from schools and universities
• 1938 compulsory closures and sale of Jewish business
• in March 1938 200,000 Jews attacked
• 1938 central office for Jewish emigration established and to force Jews to emigrate
• in the Anschluss in 1938, resulted in violence and humiliation of 190,000 Austrian Jews. Jewish properties looted, thousands arrestedd
• Kristallnacht on 9-10th November 1938 'night of crystal glass' as all windows broken
• Kristallnacht prompted by assassination of Ernst Von Rath (German) by Polish Jew. 100 deaths, attacks on 10,000 Jewish shops and burning down 200 synagogues and 20,000 Jews taken to concentration camps
• however the Nazi's were shocked at the international criticism and shock of Germans; it was mostly SA who did the damage.