By Ella D, Louise N & Leah E

How did Nazi’s deal with minorities?

After becoming chancellor in 1933 Hitler began to create the perfect population; a master race of pure Germans.

They were known as the Aryan Race. They were depicted as tall with blond hair, blue eyes and strong athletic ability.

The SS were a prime example of selective breeding in the Nazi Regime. They only recruited soldiers of pure Aryan blood. It was compulsory for SS soldiers to prove their racial history.

Hitler’s aim was to have a pure Aryan race and those who didn’t meet that criteria were known as the minorities.

What were the Nazi’s ideas on race?

The different minorities…

Political opponents – communists & socialists

Typical criminals, tramps & alcoholics

GypsiesHomosexualsBlack peopleJehovah’s Witnesses

Jewish people:

Hitler’s main targets were the Jewish population;

many would argue that no one fared worse!

All Jews in Germany suffered outrageously due to the appalling actions and radical beliefs of the Nazis.

In "Mein Kampf” derogatory names like "filthy Jew" plagued the pages and how the Jews planned to "contaminate" the blood of pure Germans.

More than 2,000 racist laws and decrees were issued between 1933 and 1945; the first one being the boycott of Jewish stores in April 1933

Jews were treated as second class citizens; they had no control and had to sit on seats marked for them.

Jewish children were ridiculed by teachers and bullied

Treatment of Jews

Passed in 1935; these were a collection of race laws that ultimately aimed to segregate the Jews from the German community

Jews lost their right to be German citizens and marriage between Jews and non-Jews was forbidden

Jews no longer had rights and could be totally controlled by the Nazis.

This law lead to much harsher treatment of Jews; most shops refused to sell food or medicines to Jews, making their life difficult.

The Nuremburg Laws

After the murder of Ernst von Rath, a Nazi 'diplomat‘ by a young Jew, Herschel Grynszpan in Paris, the Nazis took revenge against the Jews in a violent attack known as Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass.

More than 10, 000 shops owned by Jews were destroyed and their contents stolen.

Thousands of synagogues, Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed all over Germany- with many set on fire and left to burn.

Around 30,000 Jews were also arrested and sent to concentration camps like Dachau.

Night of broken Glass

The Final solution, decided at the Wannsee Conference in 1942 was believed to create an end to the Jews and other ‘undesirable’ races through mass murder.

Ghettos were used to isolated the Jews, make their life miserable and make the deportation of the Jews to concentration camps easier.

They were treated as animals, sent to camps in cattle trains. Many Jews died from starvation from just the horrendous journey there!

Guns were used at first to kill Jews at first, however it only killed very few and used too much time. By 1941 gas chambers were used instead; the poisonous chemicals caused instant death.

The Final Solution

• In the final months of the war the SS authorities did not want prisoners alive in the hands of their enemies – they would definitely tell their stories to Allied and Soviet liberators!

As a result :• Death walks took place in the hope

the final prisoners would collapse to their death!

• Finally on May 7, 1945 German armed forces surrendered unconditionally to the Allies

• World War II officially ended on the next day, leaving Germany and the Nazis with many questions to answer.

The end of the war…

In the end this volatile genocide meant:

7 million non-Jewish Soviet people were killed 2.8 million Soviet prisoners of war were killed 2.5 million non-Jewish Poles were killed 1.5 million non-Jewish Poles were sent to forced labour

concentration camps 500,000 gypsies were killed 400,000 people were forcibly sterilised 250,000 disabled people were killed 15,000 homosexuals were sent to concentration camps 10,000 Jehovah’s Witnesses were sent to concentration

camps6 million Jews were killed

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