Minority Groups in Nazi Germany
- Created by: Alice Edwards-King
- Created on: 09-06-15 17:46
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- Minority Groups in Nazi Germany
- Gypsies
- Gypsies seen as undesirable because they were not Aryan and thought to be workshy
- Only 30,000 in Germany
- In 1935, marriages between gypsies and Aryans were banned
- In 1938, a decree for the 'Struggle against the Gypsy Plague' was issued
- Forced gypsies to register so they could be controlled
- Vagrants
- Beggars
- Men moving from town to town trying to find work
- Young people who had left home
- The Nazis forced these groups to work
- In 1938, the ** put around 11,000 vagrants in concentration camps
- Black People
- Black people seen as lower class as they were not pure Germanic race
- The Nuremburg Laws, 1935, banned marriage between Aryans and black people.
- Nazis sterilised children who were born to German women by black soldiers who had been stationed in the Rhineland
- Mentally Ill
- Thought it was hereditary
- Punished those who were mentally ill
- Gypsies
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