Racial beliefs and policies (Edexcel GCSE History): Flashcards

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Racial beliefs and policies
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Nazi term for 'racially pure' Germans

Aryans

Translation of 'Lebensborn'

Fountain of life

Translation of 'Untermenschen'

Inferior people or sub-humans

Top of Nazi racial hierarchy

Aryans (the 'master race')

Bottom of Nazi racial hierarchy

Jewish people

Nazi ideal Aryan physical traits

Blonde, blue-eyed, tall, athletic

Purpose of Lebensborn programme

Encourage 'racially pure' births with SS members

Year of Nuremberg Laws

1935

What Nuremberg Laws banned

Intermarriage between Aryans & other groups

1933 law targeting disabled people

Law for Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring

Nazi treatment of gay men

Prison/camps, forced castration

SS recruitment & marriage rules

Only Aryans recruited & married

Year Roma & Sinti registration required

1938

Year Roma & Sinti arrests began

1933

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