the treaty of versailles?

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hi, im doing a project and have one last question left :D:D except as usual.. im stuck, i cant figure out:

-why did the germans reject the jews, gypsies, people with mental disorders and black people??
ive found out a few answers for jews but nothing else..

and ive been doing this project for a few hours and my brain is basically mush lol, can somebody help???? plzzzz

Answer 1

~If you've been working for more than 10 minutes and you haven't found the answer, your brain was mush before you started. Try again and start from Aryan racial purity and the master race. How do these inferior beings fit into that formula? And you missed the Serbs, the Slavs, the Poles, the Romas (although you did mention gypsies) criminals, political dissidents intellectuals and several other groups.

Answer 2

The treaty of Versailles actually ended World War I and had very little if next to nothing to do with the Nazi's racial issues. Still to answer your question...first off, the few people before did a very good job of that already, but I'll try it from my perspective. First off, persecution against the Jews was nothing new...obviously. The Nazis only differred in that they came right out with it and blamed them for all their problems. They considered the Jews and the rest of the groups, which included gypsies, mental patients, blacks, and homosexuals, they persecuted "subhumans." Propaganda is a key word. The government blamed all their problems and losses on these subhumans, convincing citizens their population had to be purged of this "filth." People were either so weak-minded that they let themselves be convinced or so scared of being persecuted themselves that they kept quiet or even helped in the persecutions. If your looking for the actual reason this hatred started, you're not going to find it. There is no excuse for what happened, no justification whatsoever. What someone said above is also true. The Nazis also used that the Jews belonged to no specific nation as an excuse for mass genocide.

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I do not see where the Treaty of Versailles has anything to do with the rest of your statement. Unless you are referring to the several news paper articles of the time that had the statements to the effect "such a treaty no German can sign" etc.


To better understand the motives of the Germany people at the time I would suggest reading a copy of Mein Kampf, by A. Hitler. This would give you and Idea of the mindset of Hitler and prospective on his actions, another subject of study would be H. Himmler. These 2 bore a heavy influence upon the actions of the Germans during that period.

Looking back from the end of the road gives one a different prospective than when looking down a path at the beginning of a journey.

The original idea was to promote German influence, German culture, reinforce German national identity. When one promote one ideal one begins to recognize differences with others. And when one is good and true then the other must be bad and wrong. It is the same concept as a class struggle, but with race and ethnicity's being the dividing factors. " We don't have because they have." etc.

I do not think that the idea to exterminate whole populations was the original plan, it sort of developed. I think that once one step was taken it brought the next

Answer 3

I do not see where the Treaty of Versailles has anything to do with the rest of your statement. Unless you are referring to the several news paper articles of the time that had the statements to the effect "such a treaty no German can sign" etc.


To better understand the motives of the Germany people at the time I would suggest reading a copy of Mein Kampf, by A. Hitler. This would give you and Idea of the mindset of Hitler and prospective on his actions, another subject of study would be H. Himmler. These 2 bore a heavy influence upon the actions of the Germans during that period.

Looking back from the end of the road gives one a different prospective than when looking down a path at the beginning of a journey.

The original idea was to promote German influence, German culture, reinforce German national identity. When one promote one ideal one begins to recognize differences with others. And when one is good and true then the other must be bad and wrong. It is the same concept as a class struggle, but with race and ethnicity's being the dividing factors. " We don't have because they have." etc.

I do not think that the idea to exterminate whole populations was the original plan, it sort of developed. I think that once one step was taken it brought the next step closer and made it easier to take.

Answer 4

The treaty of Versailles actually ended World War I and had very little if next to nothing to do with the Nazi's racial issues. Still to answer your question...first off, the few people before did a very good job of that already, but I'll try it from my perspective. First off, persecution against the Jews was nothing new...obviously. The Nazis only differred in that they came right out with it and blamed them for all their problems. They considered the Jews and the rest of the groups, which included gypsies, mental patients, blacks, and homosexuals, they persecuted "subhumans." Propaganda is a key word. The government blamed all their problems and losses on these subhumans, convincing citizens their population had to be purged of this "filth." People were either so weak-minded that they let themselves be convinced or so scared of being persecuted themselves that they kept quiet or even helped in the persecutions. If your looking for the actual reason this hatred started, you're not going to find it. There is no excuse for what happened, no justification whatsoever. What someone said above is also true. The Nazis also used that the Jews belonged to no specific nation as an excuse for mass genocide.

Answer 5

The rejection of these peoples had nothing to do with the Treaty of Versailles. This was a policy of the National Socialist (NAZI) party and the personal policy of Adolf Hitler. These peoples were rejected because they were considered inferior races and not worthy of being considered human by the NAZI's. This would be why NAZI's, Aryans, Skinheads, KKK, et al, are considered some of the most evil, disgusting people around.

For Oscar: 'Gypsies' is another word for the Roma, son.

Answer 6

Hi, I'm a former French student in History and Politics. I studied propagandas. Here is what I know:
Officially, according to nazi ideology, jews and gypsies had to be "erased" of the german 'lebensraum' (means 'space of life', that's the environment of the german superior race) because they were considered as 'apatrids' (means they don't belong to any nation) and therefore traitors to the german nation: propaganda used to point out the 'international jeweshry' (often framed as an anglo-saxon capitalist) as the ennemy.
Thousands of people with mental disorders were slaughtered in the mid 1930's ('Aktion T4' program) as they were considered as unworthy of the german race who had to be strong. Propaganda also argued that old people, disabled people, people born with malformations were 'unproductive' and meant a cost the german people couldn't afford. That's called eugenics.
As far as Black people were concerned, they were very few in mid-Europe in those days. They were considered as an inferior race, but as far as I know, there was no Black people in the concentration camps. Though nazi propaganda used the example of the Senegalese soldiers serving in the French Army to show how weak and cowardish Allies were.
Hope this will help you.

Answer 7

I don't recall the treaty of Versailles having much, if anything with Germans having a dislike for the races you mentioned.
It did have a lot to do with Hitler being able to come to power.
It was Hitler who convinced, or tried to convince the German people that Germans were the superior race. Review the Treaty of Versailles.

Answer 8

TREATY OF VERSAILLES :
Treaty of versailles was one of the most significant treaties which was which was entered into between the allied powers on the one hand and Germany on the other in 1919. The traty was signed by Germany in the mirrired palace of versailes. Hence, it is called treaty of Versailles.It was signed on june 28t, 1919.

The treaty versailles contained various provisions relating to (a) Territorial arangements
(b) Military arrangements
(c) Economic provisons
(d) Legal provisons
(e) political provisons

The terms of the treaty of versailles contained the aspects which mainly included (1) Provision for war indemnity
(2) Repairing the war losses
(3) Disarmament
(4) Political resettilment of Europe
(5) Creating league of nations



TERRITORIAL ARRANGEMENTS:-

By the territorial arrangements of the teaty
(1) Germany surrenderd Alasce-Loarrine to France
(2) Gave coal feilds of saar valley to france for15 years
(3) Gave areas of eupen and malmedy to belgium
(4) Germany lost schleswing to Denmark
(5) Germany lost west prussia to poland
(6) A part of danzing was internationalised


MILITARY CLAUSES:

Treaty of versailles sought to destroy Germany militarism by redusing the military strength of the Germany . Germany was made to abolish conscription, to restric the production of the war material, and was permited to maintain only a small navy with out submarines


source:10th class social test book

Answer 9

Please do NOT put that onus on ALL Germans!! Those who followed HITLER believed that the Aryan race was superior and rejected all other races as inferior to them. They wanted to create a world where white people ruled and only white people. Thus, they hated anyone who was not Caucasian.

Chow!!