Nazi Germany - Racial Policy

Nazi Germany - Racial Policy

Racial Theory:

• Hitler believed that the Aryan race (blonde hair, blue eyes) was racially pure
• Nazis believed that only Germans could be citizens, non-Germans had no rights to citizenship
• Taught that some races were untermensch (sub-human)

Persecution of Jews:

• April 1933 - Official one day boycott of Jewish shops and other professions
• 1933 - Jewish civil servants, lawyers and teachers sacked
• September 1935 - Nuremburg laws - Jews can't be a citizen, no voting and can't marry a German
• 1935 - 'Jews not wanted here' signs put up in swimming pools etc
• June-July 1938 - Jewish doctors…