policies towards the jews and minorities
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Learning Objectives: Outline who the Nazi’s targeted for persecution and why?Examine anti-Sematic laws that were developed by the Nazi’s between 1933-1939?How Jewish people were affected socially, politically and economically?
Nazi Policies towards the Jews and Minorities
Who were the undesirables in Nazi Germany?
LO:Outline who the Nazi’s targeted for persecution and why?
In July 1933 the ‘Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases’ brought in a compulsory sterilisation programme which targeted people with mental or hereditary illness
18 August 1939 registration of all ‘malformed’ newborn children was made compulsory. German midwives and doctors were ordered to report any child known to them who was born deaf or blind, with paralysis or with a neurological disorder such as Down’s Syndrome.
Each case was taken to a panel of ‘experts’ who marked it with either a plus or a minus. A plus meant the child would be murdered.
Treatment of the Disabled
LO:Outline who the Nazi’s targeted for persecution and why?
The hospital in Hadamar and the asylum for the mentally handicapped in Grafeneck became official
killing centres during the 1930s.
Children on the wards were given lethal cocktail of drugs in either tablet or injection form. Their parents were told they
had died of infections.
"It is now well-established that species evolve through Darwin's principle of 'Survival of the Fittest'. Selective breeding produces superior cattle, horses and other livestock. Mixing different animal species produces
mongrel breeds of inferior quality. In just the same way, different races of people have different qualities. Black men, for example, dominate the world of athletics and
boxing, and tend to have an excellent sense of rhythm. Jewish people have a talent for business, and Asians
have a reputation for working incredibly hard. All of this goes to show that mixing the races - either socially or biologically - is a bad thing. Multicultural societies are
weak and divided, and mixed-race people are mongrels"
The Nazis and Society: A Moral Dilemma?
LO:Outline who the Nazi’s targeted for persecution and why?
Imagine someone has just expressed the points of view laid in the previous slide. Produce a reply of roughly the same length designed to explain why you think their argument is flawed.
The Nazis and Society: A Moral Dilemma?
"60,000 Reichsmark is the lifetime cost of this hereditarily diseased man to the Volksgemeinschaft. Fellow German, that is your money, too."
LO:Outline who the Nazi’s targeted for persecution and why?
“The eternal Jew”
What does this source suggest about Nazi
attitudes towards the Jews?
Are there any contradiction in the way
Jews are portrayed?
Persecution of the JewsLO:Examine anti-Sematic laws that were developed by the Nazi’s between 1933-1939
Illustration from a children’s book published in Germany in 1936. The signs say—”The Jews are our misfortune” and “How
the Jews cheat”.
Stages of PersecutionLO:Examine anti-Sematic laws that were developed by the Nazi’s between 1933-1939
What were the Nuremburg Laws?
• At the annual party rally held in Nuremberg in 1935, the Nazis announced new laws that excluded German Jews from Reich citizenship and prohibited them from marrying or having sexual relations with persons of "German or related blood.”
• The Nuremberg Laws, defined a "Jew" not as someone with particular religious beliefs, but anyone who had three or four Jewish grandparents.
Arrange these laws in chronological order on your table. What do you notice that happens over the years?
The treatment of the Jews increased in severity and can be split into three main stages:
Stages of Persecution
Stage Date Persecution
1 1933 - 1937
Laws relating to Jews introduced, mostly non-violent
2 1938 More violent action (Kristallnacht)
31939 Build up to the Final Solution1941 Invasion of Poland then Russia1942-1945 The ‘Final Solution’/Holocaust
LO:Examine anti-Sematic laws that were developed by the Nazi’s between 1933-1939
Persecution
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
Read pgs. 100 -109 and answer the persecution
questions.
Synagogue burns during Kristallnacht, 9th November 1938
TURNING POINT
Triggered by assassination of German diplomat in Paris, Ernst
von Rath, on the 7th of November 1938, by Herschel Grynszpan,
a Jewish teenager whose parents,
along with 17,000 other Polish Jews, had been recently
expelled from the Reich.
Various laws were introduced
between 1933 and 1939, each one
aimed at restricting the
personal liberty and civil rights of
German Jews
Using the link below create a timeline. Put the anti-Semitic legislation, as outlined on the worksheet, that was created by the Nazi’s between 1933-1939 into chronological order.
For each law find an image/photo/clipart that will help you remember the law.
State whether these laws affected Jewish people socially, economically and politically. Some laws may fall under more than one category.
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Timeline of PersecutionLO: How Jewish people were affected socially, politically and economically