Nazi Policy To Outsiders

Aims of Nazi Policy

• Creation of the Volksgemeinschaft.

• Healthy, vigorous Aryans working for the nation.

• Elimination of the Gemeinschaftsunfahig.

• Those outsiders were: unwilling or unable to qualify.

GEMEINSCHAFTSUNFAHIG

• Unable:

Biological reasons.• Unwilling:

Ideological and social reasons.

Policy Towards the Mentally Ill

• July 1933 - sterilization law.

• Under this law 350, 000 sterilized.

• 1939 - beginning of euthanasia.

• Chaotic nature of government.

• Formation of T4 special units.

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/t4toc.html

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/euthanasia.htmlhttp://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/euthan.html

http://www.remember.org/witness/wit.vic.med.html

EUTHANASIA THE POLICY OF NAZI GERMANY

Religious Cults

• Jehovah’s witnesses, Christian socialist and 7th day Adventists regarded as cults.

• Arrested - sent to camps.

The Jehovah's Witnesses were also persecuted as they refused to do military service. Nazis also hated the sect because they believed in the imminent return of a Messiah. The rejection that this was not Hitler led to its members being sent to Germany's concentration camps.

Homosexuals

• Regarded as against the laws of nature.

• Prevented population growth.

• 1936 - Reich office created.

• Use of pink triangles.

• Medical experiments.

• 15,000 sent to camps.

When the Nazi's came to power in 1933, they put a halt to efforts seeking reform of this law. In 1935, after the murder of Ernst Roem, the NSDAP amended the Paragraph 175 to close what were seen as loopholes in the current law.

The new law had three parts:

Paragraph 175: A male who commits a sex offense with another male or allows himself to be used by another male for a sex offense shall be punished with imprisonment. Where a party was not yet twenty-one years of age at the time of the act, the court may in especially minor cases refrain from punishment.

Paragraph 175a: Penal servitude up to 10 years or, where there are mitigating circumstances, imprisonment of not less than three months shall apply to: (1) a male who, with violence or the threat of violence to body and soul or life, compels another male to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (2) a male who, by abusing a relationship of dependence based upon service, employment or subordination, induces another male to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (3) a male over 21 years of age who seduces a male person under twenty-one years to commit a sex offense with him or to allow himself to be abused for a sex offense; (4) a male who publicly commits a sex offense with males or allows himself to be abused by males for a sex offense or offers himself for the same.

Paragraph 175b: An unnatural sex act committed by humans with animals is punishable by imprisonment; the loss of civil rights might also be imposed.

Paragraph 174 of the penal code forbade incest and other sexual offenses with dependents, while paragraph 176 outlawed pedophilia. Persons convicted under these laws also wore the pink triangle.

NAZI POLICY TOWARDS HOMOSEXUALS

http://www.holocaust-trc.org/homosx.htm

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/pwh/naziviews.html

Policy Towards Gypsies

• Traditional suspicion• Small number – 30,000• 1938 – “Decree for the struggle against the

gypsy plague”• Concentration camps• Became a big issue after the start of the warHttp://www.Geocities.Com/onemansmind/

hr/nazi/gypsies.Html

ASOCIALS

• 1938 - the list: vagabonds, gypsies, beggars, prostitutes, alcoholics, eccentrics, workshy and juvenile delinquents.

• Use of black triangles.

• Policy - to remove via sterilization, camps or murder.

Nazi Policy Towards The Jews

• Anti Semitism not new or confined to Germany.• Measures before 1940 reflect the limited number

of Jews in Germany.• 1933 - job restrictions.• 1935 - lost of citizenship rights - Nuremberg laws.• 1938 - Kristallnacht - begins more radical policy.

http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/timeline.html

WATCH THE PEOPLES CENTURY: MASTER RACE

Look at the Web site:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/peoplescentury/episodes/masterrace/

USEFUL INFORMATION ON THE JEWISH POLICY

Other Targets

• The nazi regime would target any section of society that failed to conform to its racial defined Volksgemeinschaft.

                      

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