Racial beliefs and policies
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- Created on: 07-04-18 17:39
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- Racial beliefs and policies
- Nazi racial heirarchy
- 1. Aryans - 'master race'
- 2. Other white western Europeans - seen as fellow humans but lower than Aryans
- 3. Eastern Europeans - salves, seen as sub-human
- 4. Black people and gypsies - seen as sub-human and 'work-shy' - lazy
- 5. Jews - lowest of sub-human races, blamed for Germany's problems
- Untermenschen - inferior people
- Term used by Nazis to describe Slavs, gypsies, black people and Jews
- In 1935, Nuremberg Laws - banned Aryans marrying gypsies, black people or Jews
- Mixed-race children were sterilised
- After 1933, many gypsies were arrested and sent to concentration camps
- From 1938, all gypsies had to be registered and were banned from travelling, 1939 - told they were being deported
- Slavs were persecuted less than other groups
- Other undesirables
- Homosexuals - sent to prison/concentration camps, subjected to medical treatments to correct their 'disorder' after laws against homosexuality were strengthened
- Mentally handicapped people were sterilised after a new - The Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring was introduced in 1933
- Mentally and physically handicapped babies were killed
- Vagrants were seen as 'work-shy' and were put in concentration camps
- Hitler was keen to increase the number of 'pure' German's
- Blond-haired, blue-eyed, tall and athletic, hard workers and join the army/have children
- Nazi racial heirarchy
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