OCR GCSE History SHP: Living under Nazi Rule 1933-1945 by Richard Kennett

Author:Richard Kennett [Kennett, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781471860942
Publisher: Hodder Education
Published: 2017-07-24T04:00:00+00:00

This poster (1935) shows just three of the types within the Aryan race – the Nordic, the Phalian and the Western

Untermenschen

A German has his nose measured to determine whether he is a Jew, 1940

The Nazis believed that non-Aryans were inferior and called them Untermenschen or sub-humans. The term was used to describe a wide range of people including Gypsies, black people and Slavs (people from eastern Europe such as Poland and Russia). Slavs were also called Düngervolk, or dung-people. But the Nazis’ most vicious hatred was reserved for the group that they saw as the lowest of the low: the Jews.

To be defined as Jewish, a person did not have to hold Jewish beliefs. Everything depended on ancestry. According to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, anyone with three or four grandparents who were Jewish was also Jewish. Those with one or two grandparents who were Jewish were called Mischling or half-Jews.

The Nazis believed that races had distinct facial features and that Jews and Gypsies, in particular, could be identified by their large noses. To aid their research into racial types, they measured Jewish people’s noses precisely.

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