"Life of the youth was divided into different stages”. Explain the different stages according to Class 9 chapter Nazism and the Rise of Hitler
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Answer:
Nazi ideology was taught to the youth in school. School textbooks were rewritten. These books
justified Nazi ideas of racism. Hitler believed that boxing could make children iron-hearted, strong and masculine.
(b) Youth organisations like Jangvolk, Hitler Youth, Youth league and Labour Services were made responsible for educating German youth in the spirit National socialism or Nazism.
(c) The German mothers had to teach Nazi values to their children.
Answer:
Stage 1: Exclusion 1933-1939
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE AMONG US AS CITIZENS
The Nuremberg Laws of citizenship of September 1935:
1. Only Persons of German or related blood would henceforth be German
citizens enjoying the protection of the German empire.
2. Marriages between Jews and Germans were forbidden.
3. Extramarital relations between Jews and Germans became a crime.
4. Jews were forbidden to fly the national flag.
Other legal measures included:
Boycott of Jewish businesses
Expulsion from government services
Forced selling and confiscation of their properties
Besides, Jewish properties were vandalised and looted, houses attacked,
synagogues burnt and men arrested in a pogrom in NovembeStage 2: Ghettoisation 1940 - 1944
YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO LIVE AMONG US
From September 1941, all Jews had to wear a yellow Star of David on their breasts. This identity mark was stamped on their passport,
all legal documents and houses. They were kept in Jewish houses in Germany, and in ghettos like Lodz and Warsaw in the east. These
became sites of extreme misery and poverty. Jews had to surrender all their wealth before they enJews from Jewish houses, concentration camps and ghettos from different parts of Europe were brought to death factories by
goods trains. In Poland and elsewhere in the east, most notably Belzek, Auschwitz, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno and Majdanek,
they were charred in gas chambers. Mass killings took place within minutes with scientific precision.
Fig.18 – Killed while trying to escape. The
concentration camps were enclosed with live wires.
Fig.19 – Piles of clothes outside the gas chamber.
Fig.21 – A concentration camp.
A camera can make a death
camp look beautiful.