Quiz 6 - Downfall and Eugenics

Hitler loss on individual life

Means nothing “in the nation’s struggle for its very existence”

“Heil Hitler” in 1943

Basically disappeared

Hitler’s decreased speeches with decreased morale

9 in 1940, 5 in 1942, and 2 in 1943

Hitler’s Bunker

Built in 1936 and used in January of 1945

Hermann Goring

Hitler’s successor in 1940 who killed himself after a death sentence from Nuremberg

Heinrich Himmler

Head of the SS that committed suicide in May of 1945

Albrecht Speer

Hitler’s architect

Hermann Fegelein

Eve Braun’s brother who was appointed staff by Himmler and killed for desertion in 1945

Volkssturm

Civilian army ordered by Hitler on September 25, 1944

Cities that suffered the most bombing

Berlin, Leipzig, and Dresden

Civilian deaths in worst bombing

35,000

German civilian flight

Escaping Red Army atrocities but lead to many civilian deaths of starvation, cold, and exhaustion

German civilian reparations

Many sent to work camps after the war

Gregor Mendel

Scientist behind the pea experiment and discovery of dominant and recessive genes

Francis Galton

British scientist and mathematician who was the cousin of Charles Darwin and invented the term “eugenics” in 1883

Francis Galton’s book

Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Developments (1883)

International Society for Racial Hygiene

Founded in 1907

NC sterilizations

Over 8,000 between 1933 and 1974, with most being women and 39% being African American

NC sterilization justification

“Mentally ill” or “mentally deficient'“

White County, TN plea deal

In 2017, judge offered 30 day prison reductions in exchange for getting sterilized

Nazi eugenics

Forced sterilization and euthanasia of mentally and physically disabled

Rhineland Bastards

Black Germans born after WWI that were forcibly sterilized

I Accuse

Film about forced sterilization of woman with MS

Josef Mengele

Experimented on Jewish twins from a concentration camp