Aryan ideas

Which groups were inferior?

Jews, gypsies, the mentally ill, gay people and more

Which group was superior?

The Aryan race

What were the qualities of the Aryan race?

Fair skin, blonde hair, blue eyes

What were eugenics?

The idea that people with disabilities or social problems were inferior and their genes needed to be eliminated from the human bloodline.

What methods did the Nazis use to persecute people?

Sterilisation, murder and concentration camps

What was sterilisation?

Some groups were prevented from having offspring

What is the purpose of preventing people from having kids?

In order to keep the Aryan race pure, so Aryan people cannot have relations with non-Aryans

Which groups were sterilised?

The deaf, people who were mentally or physically disabled, people with hereditary diseases

What is euthanasia?

Consented murder (when the person being killed asks for their death if they are not able to do it themselves)

Who did the Nazis perform euthanasia on?

Disabled people

How many people did the Nazis euthanise?

200,000

In what was was the Nazis’ actions, not euthanasia?

They were killing people without their consent, but performing it in a way similar to consented euthanasia - the Nazis argued that these people were unfit to decide for themselves

Which people were sent to concentration camps?

Homosexuals, prostitutes, political opponents, Jehovah’s Witnesses, gypsies, alcoholics, pacifists, beggars and criminals

What percentage of Germany’s gypsies died in concentration camps?

85%