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Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39

The persecution of minorities

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Overview

The Aryan master race, Untermenschen, the Slavs, Roma and Sinti, homosexual men, the Sterilisation Law and propaganda against the disabled, the boycott of April 1933, Jewish dismissals, the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht.

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What was the outcome of Kristallnacht?

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What word did the Nazis use for peoples they judged worthless?

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  1. 1

    What did the Nazis claim about the Aryan race?

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    That tall, fair, blue-eyed Germans formed a master race destined to rule, and that all other peoples were inferior to them.

  2. 2

    What word did the Nazis use for peoples they judged worthless?

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    Untermenschen, meaning sub-humans, applied to Slavs, Roma and Sinti and Jewish people.

  3. 3

    How did the Nazis regard the Slav peoples of eastern Europe?

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    As sub-humans fit only to be driven out or used as labourers, so that Germans could take their land as living space.

  4. 4

    How were Roma and Sinti treated in Nazi Germany?

    Model answer

    They were declared racially impure and work-shy, forbidden to marry Germans, herded into special camps and later sent to concentration camps.

  5. 5

    How were homosexual men treated by the regime?

    Model answer

    The law against them was tightened in 1935 and thousands were arrested, imprisoned or sent to concentration camps.

  6. 6

    What did the Sterilisation Law of 1933 permit?

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    The compulsory sterilisation of people with conditions the Nazis called hereditary, such as mental illness, epilepsy, deafness and blindness, and hundreds of thousands were operated on.

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