WOH-4244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Spanish Civil War, Austrian Resistance, Lebensborn
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For unwed aryan mothers with aryan children where they could have their child. Direct attempt by nazis to encourage aryan pregnancies. Criminalize sexual relations between jews and germans. Jewish - 3 or 4 jewish grandparents. Existing interracial marriages were not forced to dissolve. Pressure put on them to break up. Banned from clubs and sports teams and all public life. Thinking about removal and deportation at this time, not mass extermination. November 1938, german government organizes a pogrom. 90% of total wealth confiscated when leaving germany. Us closes off immigration of jews because immigrants were in huge numbers. Reoccupation of rhineland (west germany) in 1936. Violates versailles treaty but no one reacts. Provided military aid to general franco"s forces in spanish civil war. Early 1938 hitler invades austria to annex it into germany. Unreliable tanks even with no austrian resistance. German inhabitants (some want to be annexed)
