Hitler’s germany social impact 2 (persecution of minorities and undesirables)

Social Impact (Part Two)

Hitler’s Germany

Persecution of Minorities

Jewish Memorial, Berlin

Persecution of Minorities: JewsHow is the Jew

depicted in this poster?

Anti-SemitismHostility to or prejudic

against Jews

Persecution of Minorities: JewsJews blamed for all

of Germany’s problems:WWI DefeatTOVWeimar GovernmentHyperinflationGreat Depression

1933: Nazis called for national boycott of Jewish businessesHurt Jews financially and to separate them

from the rest

Persecution of Minorities: Jews

1934: Marking of Jewish shops with Star of David of ‘Juden’ (Jew)Businesses and properties taken awayJews also deprived of their professions,

especially those in the civil service


1935: Nuremberg LawsThe exclusion of Jews from German society

by depriving/stripping them of German citizenship

Jews not allowed to marry non-Jews


Night of Broken Glass (1938)Nazis looted and destroyed Jewish shops.

Home and synagogues were burned. Jews were attacked and killed and many were sent to concentration camps.


The HolocaustLiquidation of Ghettoes The ‘Final Solution’

The systematic extermination of JewsDeath marches, gas chambers, working to

death


Persecution of ‘Undesirables’

Gypsies, homosexuals, the handicapped, and the disabled were persecutedRegarded as inferior and as social

parasitesThreats to the ‘purity’ of the Aryan

race


Eugenics and Euthanasia Promoting ‘Racial hygiene’: The strong

and racially pure were encouraged to have more children but the weak and racially impure had to be neutralised


Persecution of ‘Undesirables’ Eugenics and

Euthanasia Laws instituted

against these groups – to control, authorise arrests and even sterilise them

Many also sent to concentration camps and eventually gassed in large chambers

Under Weimar Government:Right to voteEquality in marriage and civil matters – held

political positions and roles in civil service

Women

What can you infer from the photo about the role of women in Nazi Germany?

Women

WomenUnder Nazis

Confined to being mother and spouseBelief that women served

nation best by being good wives and mothers

Excluded from politics and academics – after 1933, women ceased to hold seats at Reichstag

Under NazisNazis made girls undergo vigorous training in

domestic tasks – farming and sportsIndoctrination attempts to organise women’s

affairs according to the Party line

Women

Results?Policies were oppressive The importance of women to building a strong

nation was acknowledged and women saw Nazi policies as a means of establishing an identity for themselves

Women

The Hitler YouthAims

To ensure that the German youth would grow up to be loyal to the Nazi regime and to be willing to fight for it

To serve as a youth counterpart to the SA

To groom youths (14-18) to be future leaders in Nazi organisations (e.g. SS and the army)

MethodsIndoctrination in Nazi ideology and anti-

SemitismPhysical and military training emphasised

instead of academicsSubdivision for boys aged 10-14 created

The Hitler Youth

Results? Loyalty of German youth to the

NazisManpower for the German military

when WW2 broke out

The Hitler Youth

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