http://historacle.org/hitlers_supermen.html http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/gcselinks/sourcework/masterrace.pdf http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/blood_purity_nazi_germany.htm http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007679 What is the Aryan Race:
● Racial grouping normally used to describe people of European Heritage
● Mainly used during the 19th and 20th century Nazi View on the Aryan race
● The nazi upper hierarchy determined their “master Race” to be that of the Aryan race
● Looked upon themselves as “pure” humans and all other races to be subhuman
● Believed that the “pure” germans were descended from the Nordic People
● Hitler And the nazi party began to spread propaganda glorifying the Aryan race and putting down all other races
● The Nazi party began to attempt to shape the german populations ideas to think that non aryans should be sterilized and unallowed to repopulate while the aryans should repopulate the world
● As the second world war started, the german army began to exterminate non aryans throughout europe by the thousands
● throughout schools in germany, students were drilled with the idealogies of blood purity and severely warned of the consequences of any relationships with lesser races
● hitler imposed these measures in order to normalize these ideas into a new generation of germans
● Hitler used to use pseudoscience such as measuring peoples body proportions in order to determine if they fit his race or not Nazi eugenics:
● Nazi party ruled that people of aryan race were forbidden to marry and reproduce with non aryans in order to maintain their purity and after the nuremberg laws all aryans who married lesser races were imprisoned while the other spouse would be sent to a concentration camp
● thousands of non aryans were forcibly sterilized, including those with physical and mental disabilities
● Hitler began recruiting healthy aryan males in order for them to impregnate healthy aryan females in an attempt to breed his pure aryan race, babies that did not fit his requirements or were seen to be born with a disability were killed and seen as a waste of food
● Hitler additionally placed a great value on those males with superior physical strength and height, and promoted any soldier who was above 6 feet 6 inches to his SS
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students). All other missed quizzes will count as the student’s lowest grades (except quizzes missed for religious holidays)! Group Projects There will be two in-class group projects. Students will investigate an historical area or event using their notes, textbook, and primary-source materials such as pictures, maps and texts. Students will use these materials to come up with a 5-minute presentation that introduces their topic to the rest of the class. Group projects are worth 5% of your grade and…
1 The Birth of Civilization Mohenjo-Daro Figure. Scholars believe this limestone statue from about 2500 B.C.E. depicts a king or a priest from Mohenjo-Daro in the Indus valley in present-day Pakistan. Does this figure seem to emphasize the features of a particular person or the attributes of a particular role? Hear the Audio for Chapter 1 at www.myhistorylab.com CRAIMC01_xxxii-031hr2.qxp 2/17/11 3:22 PM Page xxxii EARLY HUMANS AND THEIR CULTURE page 1 WHY IS “culture” considered a defining…
1): * The origins of Hinduism lie in two cultural complexes. * The Indus Valley Civilization that flourished Between 2500 BCE and 1500 BCE * The Aryan Culture, which developed during the Second Millennium BCE. * There is dispute as to whether the Aryan culture developed form the Indus valley culture or that the Aryans migrated from somewhere else but it is widely agreed that Hinduism is a religion that has developed over a period of time. * The religion has grown via commentaries…
1 BECOMING CHANCELLOR, 1918–33 Overview Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who led the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, more commonly known as the Nazi Party. He was Chancellor of Germany (1933–45) and Führer of Germany (1934–45). To understand how the Nazi Party gained power, we must understand the social, political and economic context of Germany after the First World War. Politically, Germany was humiliated by its loss of the war and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles…
