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Is National Socialism a complicated or simple ideology?

Simple but dressed up to seem complex.

Carrie Buck

Sterilized without permission because she was feeble minded, lost court case.

What research was used to substantiate the theory of eugenics? Who funded the research?

The Carnegie Institution funded research that stockpiled millions of index cards on Americans where they plotted the removal of families.

Classification

Us vs. Them

What is genocide?

A group of people intentionally killing and destroying the lives of people with different national, ethnic, racial, or religious ideas.

Who was Sir Francis Galton and what role did he play in encouraging eugenics?

An English Statistician who was obsessed with measurements. He claimed that talent ran through families.

Charles Davenport

Brought Eugenics to the U.S

Hitler got into power because of...

Contingency Preparation Opportunity History

Dehumanization

Denying the humanity of the other classifications

Denial

Extends the crime of genocide

Polarization

Extremists drive groups apart

List one law passed in Europe during the middle ages that prevented the Jews from equality.

Jews were forbidden to marry Christians

Joseph Mengele

Mad scientist at Auschwitz

Preparation

Members of victim groups are forced to wear identifying symbols

Did Hitler want to kill off the Jewish people from the very beginning?

Yes, Hitler always hated the Jewish people and wanted to "get rid of the illness"

Was Hitlers rise to power legal?

Yes, everything was legal

Volk

the will of the people

What is never a reason to study genocide?

to prevent it

Why study?

to understand why people act this way

Despite his attempt to construct a master German race Hitler wasn't even born in Germany

true

Hitler and Nazi leaders had little understanding of German history or culture.

true

Hitler and the Nazis exploited economic conditions by making concrete promises to Germans designed to alleviate suffering.

true

Hitler had an unhappy childhood. (Abusive father)

true

Hitler intended to systematically wipe out the Jews from the beginning

true

Hitler spent time in jail as a political prisoner

true

Hitler ultimately gained power in Germany through a series of carefully orchestrated legal and political maneuvers.

true

Hitler was a master of propaganda

true

Hitler's personal life was often unusual and odd.

true

National Socialism emphasized an ideology that was at odds with traditional German values

true

National Socialism focused on leadership (the Fuhrer), and paid very little attention to the idea of "Fellowship."

true

The Holocaust is considered a unique historical event, but one of a series of genocidal acts that have taken place.

true

The Nazis believed that Germans should not be blamed for World War I and should not have to pay money or give land to the winners of the war.

true

The Nazis believed that Germany should be able to get more land for its growing population.

true

The Nazis believed that anyone living in Germany who did not have German blood should follow special laws for non-citizens.

true

The Nazis believed that if the country could not provide enough jobs and food for its own citizens, immigrants must leave.

true

The Nazis believed that all German citizens had the right to a job and food for their family.

false

The Nazis introduced anti-Semitism into Europe.

false

Which stage contained the actions that carried out the "final solution"?

organization

National Socialist doctrine was built only on complicated intellectual ideas that were new and revolutionary

false

Where and when did the idea (s) take hold in the United States?

1900-1930 in New York and California.

What did the Nazis believe in? Are these ideas inherently dangerous?

Family, faith (in Hitler), duty, hard work, honor, loyalty, respect for law, sacrifice, and community. None are inheritly dangerous.

Aryan race

German blood/superior race

Utopian

Nazis were determined to create "a state in which everything is perfect"

Did anti-semitism begin during WWII?

No, Anti-semitism had existed for thousands of years

Organization

Planned Killings

What is Eugenics

The attempt to make the "most fit" society by eliminating anyone who was not "fit"

Extermination

The mass killings

Why did the Romans persecute the Jews?

The refused to accept Jesus as the Messiah

Are Nazi ideas old or new? Why can we say that they were the ultimate recyclers?

They had no original ideas; they borrowed from others. Only added thing was technology

Who coined the term anti-semitism?

Wilhelm Marr

Prior to the "Final Solution" (1942), Jews in Germany faced very few restrictions and were not singled out for poor treatment.

false

Nazi

a member of the National Socialist party (far right)

What was eugenics?

a pseudo-science

Race

a social construct used to group people based on physical & social properties

Totalitarianism

a system of government that is centralized

The Depression had little effect on Hitler's rise to power.

false

The German people, both in attitude and voting, opposed the Nazi message for most of Hitler's career.

false

The Nazis advanced in parliamentary (Reichstag) elections in the early 1930's on the strength of middle-class anger and fear, achieving more than 51% of the popular vote in 1933.

false

what is german nationalism

belief that the Aryan race was superior to all other races (spread through propaganda)

According to early eugenicists like David Starr Jordan, what was the source of both superior talent and identifiable inferiority?

blood

What are the 8 stages of genocide?

classification, symbolization, dehumanization, organization, polarization, preparation, extermination, denial

What stage was propaganda important

dehumanization

Adolf Hitler

eventually became the leader of the Nazi party

Hitler founded the DAP

false

Hitler gave little or no evidence of his hatred of Jews prior to becoming the leader of Germany.

false

Hitler was a coward both on and off the battlefield

false

Hitler was a good student who was forced to leave high school because of his family's financial difficulties.

false

Hitler's belief in the superiority of Germans meant that as national policy, Jews had to be eliminated from the country, and later the world, because they were a threat to the purity of the race. He called that a pollution of the blood.

false

Hitler's family tree was relatively normal

false

Hitler's hatred of the Jews can be traced to 2 events: his refusal at the Vienna Art Academy and the death of his mother, who was being treated by a Jewish doctor.

false

National Socialism emphasizes the importance of the State over the individual, and is the only government in history to do so.

false

Fuhrer

leader

Symbolization

names languages uniforms types of dress colors and religious symbols

Is genocide a new idea?

old idea, new term

State

political party/government

Antisemitism

prejudice against Jewish people

Expansimistic Program

the Nazis' expansion over territory, economy, & society

What tragic event in Christianity did the Jews get blamed for?

the killing of Jesus

Paganism

the kind of substitute religion National Socialism was