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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