QUESTION 3: HOW DID THE NAZIS PERSECUTE MINORITY GROUPS IN
GERMANY BETWEEN THE 1930S AND 1940s?
Study Sources 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D and answer the following questions.
3.1
Refer to Source 3A.
3.1.1 Define the concept anti-Semitism in your own words.
(1 x2)
(2)
3.1.2 How, according to the source, did Hitler end democracy in Germany
in 1933?
(2 x 1)
(2)
3.1.3 Using the information in the source and your own knowledge
explain why Germany experienced an economic crisis in 1933.
(1 x 2)
(2)
3.1.4 Comment on the reasons for the Nazi's hatred for the Jews.
(2x2)
(4)
3.2
Read Source 3B.
3.2.1 What, according to the source, was the function of the Euthanasia
Program in Germany?
(1 x 2)
(2)
3.2.2 List THREE categories of individuals that the Euthanasia Program
wanted to eliminate from the German population.
(3 x 1)
(3)
(2)
3.2.3 Define the concept eugenics in the context of the Nazi racial
policies.
(1 x 2)
3.2.4 What is implied by the statement, 'Disabled people represented a
genetic and a financial burden on the German society'. (2x2)
3.2.5 Explain why the Euthanasia Program can be seen as a violation of
human rights.
(2x2)
(4)
(4)
3.3
Consult Source 3C.
3.3.1 Name the THREE categories of people who were known as the
Gypsies.
(3 x 1)
(3)
3.3.2 According to the source, how were the Gypsies killed at the
Auschwitz Concentration Camp?
(2 x 1)
(2)
3.3.3 What options, do you think, the Gypsies had to escape sterilisation
in Germany?
(2 x 2)
(4)
3.3.4 Explain how forced sterilisation contributed to the practice of racism
in Germany in the 1930s.
(2x2)
(4)