History Germany: Minority Groups

Aryan Race
1. Nazis believed in a pure Aryan Race
2. To belong to the Aryan Race you had to be blonde haired and blue eyed
3. The Aryan Race is tall, long-legged, slim
4. People who did not fit this criteria were outcasts of the Aryan Race
Outcasts were put into two groups:
1. Asocial Groups (people who would damage the Volksgemeinschaft by failing to follow Nazi way of life)
  1. Alcoholics
  2. Non-conformists (people who did not follow law)
  3. Gypsies
  4. Vagrants
  5. Work-shy
  6. Teenage Delinquints
2. Untermenschen (people how threatened the Aryan race by polluting it with their inferior genetic make-up)
  1. Disabled
  2. Homosexuals
  3. Mentally Ill
  4. Black People
  5. Jews
Dealing with "Burdens of the community"
1. Euthanasia Campaign
  1. 1939:Nazis began to secretly exterminate people.
  2. 6,000 handicapped babies, children and teens were murdered by starvation or lethal injection
  3. 72,000 people were murdered before 1941 when public protest forced Hitler to stop
2. Concentration Camps
  1. 1937: youth concentration camp set up
  2. 1938: 11,000 beggars, gypsies and tramps were sent to Buchenwald
3. Sterilisation Law July 1933
  1. Nazis sterilised people with simple mindedness and chronic alcoholism
  2. Between 1934 and 1945 320,000-350,000 people were sterilised, 300,000 were mentally ill
4. Propaganda
  1. Campaigns launched against the "burdens of the community"
Gypsies
1. 1935: marriage between gypsies and Germans was banned
2. 1938: "Decree for the struggle against the Gypsy Plague". The law aimed to register all names of Gypsies so they could be locked up and kept away from Aryans
Homosexuality
1. Nazis believed that homosexuals were weak, effeminate men who could not fight for Germany
2. 1934: Hilter forced the Gestapo to keep a "pink list" of all men engaged in sexual relationships
3. Between 1933-1945 police arrested 100,000 homosexual men
4. Nazis experimented on homosexuality in prisons causing illness, mutilation and even death as they believed it could be curable
Dysfunctional Families
1. Hashude was were dysfunctional families were sent to be "corrected"
2. People unwilling to work, alcoholics, beggars, neglecting their children and getting into debt were all sent here
3. July 1940: Hashude closed, out of 84 families only 18 were recorded in not having made any improvements

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