Joseph Goebbels- in charged of propaganda
Holocaust-
- mass genocide of 6 mil. jews (also blacks, homos, anyone who was different than the aryan race)
- concentration camps
- inferior according to hitler
- jews (6 mil)
- gypsies
- mentally/ physically handicapped
- slavic people
- poles (2.5 mil dead)
- Homosexuals (5-15 thousand dead)
- communists/ socialist
- dark skinned people
- mixed races
- Jehovah's WItnesses
- Aryan Race
- blonde hair
- blue eyes
- tall and muscular
- get rid of indesirables (above) so they don't "dilute" the Aryan race
- original term refers to Indo-European speaking people
- Lebensborn
- promoted having lots of aryan babies
- houses set up where women would just have babies
- lots of unwed mothers (rumors of rape)
- they actually volunteered
- not paid but treated very well
- health care
- food
- shelter
- after the war they werent liked a lot
- supposed to take place in Russia (Lebensraum)- living space
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