nazi germany - racial ideology
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- Created on: 09-06-22 12:01
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- nazi racial ideology
- Aryan superiority
- ethnic minorities that did not fit the mold
- Slavic people
- Romani people
- Black people
- idea first developed in the 1800s, based on the false belief of racial superiority in northern and western Europe
- zero scientific basis
- taught in schools as 'racial science'
- zero scientific basis
- ideal was blonde hair, blue eyes, athletic + tall
- many Aryans did not fit the ideal, but discrimination was more race based than superficial traits
- ethnic minorities that did not fit the mold
- eugenics
- genetic superiority led to the persecution and murder of people with disabilities
- 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
- resulted in thousands of forced sterilisations
- 1933 Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
- in Mein Kampf, Hitler declares that even genocide is necessary to keep a pure gene pool
- escalated rapidly by 1940, when hundreds of thousands of German with mental or physical disabilities were euthanised
- genetic superiority led to the persecution and murder of people with disabilities
- intro to nazi racism
- believed that the world was divided into distinct races with their own traits
- races with the perceived best traits dominate other races
- tried to use science to prove racial theories
- recruited scientists to categorise people depending on physical features
- actually proved that people *could not* be categorised this way and that nazi theories were objectively misguided
- did not stop nazis from teaching 'racial science' and presenting it as fact
- actually proved that people *could not* be categorised this way and that nazi theories were objectively misguided
- recruited scientists to categorise people depending on physical features
- racial policies
- nazi racism determined how people were treated, and those identified as Aryan recieved benefits
- those who were identified as non-Aryan (esp. Jews) were heavily discriminated against
- Nuremberg Laws
- removed Jews' German citizenship + banned so-called race-mixing
- forced sterilisation of certain groups
- prevented people with disabilities, Black and Roma Germans from having children
- incentivised Aryan women to get pregnant by Aryan ** members
- Aryan superiority
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