Matilda Plambeck.
22/04/2020
The persecution of minorities
During their 12 years in power the Nazis persecuted any group they
thought challenged their ideals:
--Homosexuals were threats to their ideas about family life
--The mentally handicapped were a threat to the to the idea of Germans
being a perfect master race
--Gypsies and Jews were thought to be inferior people
-The methods of the persecutions varied:
--The organisations for gay and lesbian people were shutdown
---Homosexuality was already a crime
---There was a lot of anti-gay prejudice even before 1933 which the Nazis
exploited
----Books by gay authors were banned
----About 100,000 people were arrested and around 50,000 sent to prison
-----Between 5000 and 10,000 of these ended up in concentration camps
and they were forced to wear a pink triangle to mark them out
--The “euthanasia program” began in 1939:
---It was against the mentally handicapped
----At least 5000 babies and children were killed between 1939 and 1945
either by injection or starvation
----Between 1939 and 1941, 72,000 mentally ill patients were gassed
before public outcry in Germany itself stopped the extermination
--The attempted extermination of Gypsies did not cause an outcry:
---Five out of six Gypsies living in Germany in 1939 were killed by the
Nazis
--There was little complaint about the treatment of a so called “asocials”:
---Alcoholics
---Homeless people
---Prostitutes
---Habitual criminals
---Beggars
--They were rounded up off the streets and sent to concentration camps.
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