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Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship c.1918-1945

Nazi racial policy and the persecution of the Jews

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Overview

Eugenics in the Nazi context, nuremberg Laws and T4 programme.

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Key term

How were Jews excluded from public life in 1933?

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Why did emigration not save more German Jews?

Key term

Name two of the extermination camps and explain how they differed from earlier camps.

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  1. 1

    Summarise Nazi racial ideology.

    Model answer

    It held that humanity was divided into races of unequal worth, that the Aryan or Nordic race was the creator of civilisation, that the Jews were a parasitic counter-race, and that history was a struggle for survival between them.

  2. 2

    What was meant by eugenics in the Nazi context?

    Model answer

    The claim that the health of the race must be protected by encouraging the reproduction of the fit and preventing that of the unfit, which in Germany became compulsory sterilisation.

  3. 3

    What did the sterilisation law of 1933 provide?

    Model answer

    It allowed the compulsory sterilisation of those diagnosed with conditions held to be hereditary, including mental illness, epilepsy and blindness, and hundreds of thousands were sterilised.

  4. 4

    How were Jews excluded from public life in 1933?

    Model answer

    A one-day boycott of Jewish shops was staged in April, and a law of the same month removed Jews from the civil service, and soon after from the law, medicine, teaching and journalism.

  5. 5

    What were the Nuremberg Laws, and when were they passed?

    Model answer

    Two laws of 1935 which stripped Jews of Reich citizenship and forbade marriage and sexual relations between Jews and Germans.

  6. 6

    How did the Nuremberg Laws define who was a Jew?

    Model answer

    By descent rather than belief, counting grandparents, so that a person who had never practised Judaism could be classified as a Jew or as a Mischling of partial descent.

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