Western Civilization II / Unit 16 WC2 1519 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sterilization, the Nuremberg Laws, the First Camps
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The idea
Enemies were Jews, the disabled and the Romani. Involuntary sterilization began in nineteen thirty-three. The Nuremberg Laws of September nineteen thirty-five stripped Jews of citizenship, barred professions and made sex between Jews and Germans a crime. The first camp, Dachau near Munich, opened within weeks of January thirty-three.
In practice
Kristallnacht, November thirty-eight, the witness adds.
Where people slip
Dachau is named on the witness.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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