The Nazi attitudes and Policies towards minorities

Aryan

White German nationals

Eugenics

Society could be improved by making the best parents breed and preventing unsuitable parents from having children through sterilisation.

Racial Hygiene

The Nazis promoted this idea that only the best parents should breed and only Aryans should be allowed to have children was taught in school and laws were passed to prevent mixing

Ideas on Race

\-Master Race

\-Untermenshen (sub humans)-Slavs

\-Lebensunwertes (unworthy of life)- Roma and Jewish people

\-Jews were persecuted all over Europe

Antisemitism

Blamed for not being part of German society, Scapegoats

Slavs

\-Slavs untermenshen

\-Wanted to inv==a==de slavic countries for lebensraum

Gypsies

\-Roma Sinti and Yenish

\-Accused of not working and not paying tax

\-Banned from travelling in groups

\-removed their citizenship

\-26,000 in Germany

-from 1936 put in camps

\-Subject to Nuremburg Laws

Gay men

\-766 men arrested for being accused of being gay in 1934

\-by 1938 8000 were in camps

\-5000 men died in camps before 1939

\-Castration

Disabled

1933 law for the prevention of Hereditary Disease

\-Compulsory sterilisation of anyone with any sort of disability , alcoholics, people born without limbs, epilepsy, those who were deaf and blind

over 400,000 sterilised

They murdered babies in the T4 programmes eventually it was expanded to anyone up to the age of 17

by 1939 5000 were murdered

Jewish People

\-April 1933 Banned from holding a public job e.g. Civil Servant or teacher

\-September 1933 banned from inheriting property

\-May 1935- Banned from the army

-1934 banned from pools and leisure centres by local authorities and some painted benches yellow for jews only

\-1st April 1933 official Boycott of Jewish Business marked the Jewish stores with the stars of David.

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The Nuremberg Laws of 1935

Affected: Jewish, Black and Roma/Sinti people

Reich Law of Citizenship

\-removed citizenship of anyone not deemed to be of German blood

\- Those of 3 or 4 Jewish Grandparents were counted

\-Now known as Subjects

\-passports cancelled

\-Lost right to vote

\-wear a yellow armband

Reich Law for protection of German Blood and Honour

\-marriage between German Citizens and Jewish people banned as well as sex

1938-All possessions registered so Germans can take whatever they want and they must carry ID cards

Polish Jew shot German in German embassy in France

The Germans escalated and exaggerated this to a Jewish attack and they raided Jewish homes and burnt down Jewish businesses and Synagogues.

Kristallnacht

8th November gangs smashed up Jewish businesses with Hitler Youth and SA not in uniform were sent to destroy Jewish property to encourage others

814 shops destroyed

171 homes

191

100 killed

20,000 arrested and sent to camps

Fined the Jews 1 billion marks

Jewish eviction

January 1939- All Jewish people to be evicted from Germany

April 1939- Jews were evicted from their homes