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Discuss the various roles played by people in Germany during the reign of…
Discuss the various roles played by people in Germany during the reign of the Nazis.
Perpertrators
Who?
The NAZI Party
Pro-Nazi German citizens
Why?
Nazi ideology + Nazi laws
Believed in Psuedoscientific race theories
How?
Antisemitism
Kristalnacht
Legal persecution
Nuremberg Laws
Ostracizing 'inferior groups'
Consequences?
Some head Nazis were held accountable
Nuremberg Trials
Everyday 'pro-nazi' citizens carried on as before without any real consequences post WWII
Bystanders
Why?
To avoid persecution from the Nazi
Consequences of opposition is too great to risk
Who?
Ordinary, everyday German citizens who were not pro-Nazis nor did they actively stand against the Nazis, nor were they persecuted by the Nazis
How?
Went on with lives.
Benefited from persecution
Some members of Society were barred from certain activities
Consequences?
Guilt.
Outcasts from a pro-Nazi society
Resistors
Why?
Religious convictions
It was the right thing to do (Empathy)
Who?
University Students
White Rose Movement in Munich
Church leaders
Bonhoffer & the Confessing Church
How?
Mass anti-Nazi propaganda (WRM)
Spoke out against Nazism (DBCC)
Supplies provided for those who needed help
Consequences?
Negative Consequence: leaders of WRM were executed
Bonhoffer: Died in a concentration Camp
Rescuers
How?
Moving Jewish populations into neutral Sweden to avoid persecution from Nazis
Hiding of the persecuted from the Nazi regime
Saving factory workers from death at the concentration camps
Why?
People who stood up against the Nazi regime by rescuing opponents from persecution from Nazism + were emphatic to the cause of the persecuted
Who?
Oskar Schindler
Miep Gies (The Franks)
Danish King
Consequences?
Becoming a part of the persecuted group
Ostracized from German society
Punishment from the Nazis
Victims
Who?
Jewish people
People of colour
Political opponents
Mental/ Physical handicaps
Homosexuals
Slavic people
Roma & Sinti
How?
Concentration Camps
Ghettos
Ostracization
Euthanasia
Sterlization
Why?
No use to the Nazi regime
Impure/ inferior blooded
Scapegoated for German troubles
Consequences?
Death
Attempted Genocide
Unable to give birth
Ostracized from Society
Modern day ramifications?