History - Nazi policies for minorities

  • Tramps, beggars, prostitutes, homosexuals and criminals - sterilised

    After 1933, some tramps, beggars, prostitutes and criminals compulsorily sterilised
    ^ seen as a burden rather than contributors to society
    some Nazis believed their behaviour was hereditary
  • Anti-Semitism

    Jews banned from government employment
    Jewish Judges and lawyers were banned from practising law
    SA ordered boycott of Jewish shops and businesses
  • Compulsory sterilisation of the disabled

    Mentally and physically disabled affected - as the Nazis believed such conditions were hereditary - therefore a threat to future racial health
  • Anti-Semitism

    Jews banned from serving in the army
    Banned from public places - swimming pools, parks, and cinema's
  • Anti-Semitism (NUREMBURG LAWS)

    Jews couldn't marry of have sex with someone of German blood
    Aryan Germans married to Jews encouraged to get a divorce - or they would be treated as Jews
    Jews lost their status as German citizens - no longer had any rights - couldn't vote or hold a passport
    Ensured no interracial mixing of Jews
  • Tramps, beggars, homosexuals, prostitutes, and criminals

    Rounded up and sent to concentration camps
    Homosexuals would not reproduce and therefore were not seen as socially useful
  • Sterilisation of black Germans

    500 black Germans were sterilised
    Regarded as racially inferior and a threat to the purity of German blood
  • Gypsies sent to concentration camps

    Gypsies rounded up and sent to concentration camps
    Regarded as racially inferior (untermenschen) and a threat to the purity of German blood
  • Anti-Semitism

    Jews had to register possessions with the government - these could be confiscated at any time
    Must carry identification cards - made easier to identify by authorities
    Jewish doctors and lawyers could only take on Jewish clients
  • KRISTELLNACHT

    DISCRIMINATION -> PERSECUTION
    Protest at Nazi antisemitism, Jewish student shot and killed German diplomat in Paris
    SA and SS encouraged to attack Jews and smash up their homes, businesses and synagogues (plain clothed)
    Police ordered to do nothing
    191 synagogues set on fire, 91 jews killed, 20,000 rounded up and sent to concentration camps
  • disabled children being euthanised

    Disabled children began to be euthanised - this was following the outbreak of war
    Adults followed in 1940
    ^ policy abandoned in 1941 after criticism from the Catholic church
    This was because the Nazis believed these conditions were hereditary and a threat to future racial health
  • Reich Office for Jewish Emigration

    Set up for Jews who wanted to leave the country - however many had nowhere to go, plus limits of how many refugee's each country wanted to take
    Those who did leave had to surrender all possessions and property to Nazis - easy to check if you hadn't as all Jews had to register possessions