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the Nazis believed that the Aryans were the stronger people (ubermenschen)
→ blond hair blue eyed Aryans were superior
→ untermenschen included black people and Slavs
→ the most hated were Jewish people (defined in the Nuremburg laws as someone with three or four Jewish grandparents)
the Nazis spread myths to make people hate the Jews, for example:
the Jews were communists
the defeat in WWI was due to Jewish people
Jewish people owned all the big businesses and profited from the economic crisis
they started socially excluding the Jews, with signs saying ‘Jews not wanted here’
they were also often humiliated by SA or police
publications portrayed them as wanting to destroy Germany
1933 | Jewish people excluded from all legal professions |
1935 | the Nuremburg laws made marriage between Jewish people and Germans punishable with prison |
1938 | Jewish people had to have a J on their passport and had to have he middle name ‘Israel’ or ‘Sarah’ in their name |
1938 | Jewish children banned from non-Jewish schools |
1939 | Jewish people had to hand over all valuables to the state |
kristallnacht
7 Nov - Herschel Gynszpan (Jewish) assassinated a German official
9 Nov - Nazis announced if attacks on Jewish people happened they would not be stopped
267 synagogues destroyed
7500 Jewish owned establishments looted
91 Jewish people murdered
30,000 Jewish men sent to concentration camps
boycott
1 April 1933 there was a boycott of all Jewish business
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