History 2147A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Rassenschande, Wage War, Lebensraum
Document Summary
Punished for even just holding hands, or looking at each other in a suggestive way. Sometimes even for having sexual thoughts for another. Rassenschande (cid:498)race defilement(cid:499: sentences range 1 day 15 years, served at concentration camps (controlling mechanism, most common way for germans to denounce each other, thousands sentenced, many more investigated, most common sentence was humiliation in public. But germans don(cid:495)t join in and the regime is not expecting this. International alarm: international alarm is expressed, and diplomatic notes are sent to. And so they blame the jews for the damage in germany: germany needs to be jew free before they go into war because he believes. Jews were responsible for germans loss in ww1. It is clear that war is coming and it has become more urgent to get rid of jews. Jews can be released if they have the documentation to go into another country really trying to get rid of jews: alters concentration camp system.