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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 -
Jews banned from government employment
Jewish Judges and lawyers were banned from practising law
SA ordered boycott of Jewish shops and businesses -
Mentally and physically disabled affected - as the Nazis believed such conditions were hereditary - therefore a threat to future racial health
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Jews banned from serving in the army
Banned from public places - swimming pools, parks, and cinema's -
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 -
Rounded up and sent to concentration camps
Homosexuals would not reproduce and therefore were not seen as socially useful -
500 black Germans were sterilised
Regarded as racially inferior and a threat to the purity of German blood -
Gypsies rounded up and sent to concentration camps
Regarded as racially inferior (untermenschen) and a threat to the purity of German blood -
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 -
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 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 -
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