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other citizens. These included Jews, Gypsies, ‘Blacks’ and other nationalities like Polish
and Russian people.
These laws, promulgated in 1935, stated
(i) Only German or related blood would be German citizens, enjoying the protection of
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the German Empire.
(ii) Marriages between Germans and the ‘undesirables’ were strictly forbidden. Extramarital
relations between them also considered a crime.
Other legal measures included:
• Boycott of Jewish businesses.
• Expulsion of Jews from government services.
• Confiscation and forcible selling of the properties of Jews.

4. YOUTH IN NAZI GERMANY
l Hitler was enthusiastically interested in the youth of the country. Schools were cleansed
and purified. Germans and Jews were not allowed to sit or play together. In the 1940s,
Jews were taken to the gas chambers.
l Introduction of racial science to justify Nazi ideas of race.

l Children were taught to be loyal and submissive, hate Jews and worship Hitler. Youth
organisations were responsible for educating German youth in ‘the spirit of National
Socialism’.
l At the age of 14, boys had to join the Nazi youth organisation where they were taught
to worship war, glorify aggression and violence, condemn democracy, and hate Jews,
communists, Gypsies and all those categorised as ‘undesirable’.
l Later, they joined the Labour Service at the age of 18 and served in the armed forces
and entered one of the Nazi organisations.
l In 1922, the Youth League of the Nazis was founded. Four years later it was renamed
as Hitler Youth.

Activity (Page no. 66)

Q. If you were a student sitting in one of these classes, how would you have felt towards
Jews?
Ans. If I had been a student sitting in one of these classes, I would have felt very bad, as I would
be missing my friends, who used to play with me earlier. I would have felt sympathetic
towards them and would have hated the government for such unjust action.

Q. Have you ever thought of the stereotypes of other communities that people around
you believe in? How have they acquired them?
Ans. I thought about the stereotypes of other communities they believe in. They usually acquired
them from their ancestors and the culture & traditions and customs of the community to
which they belong.

4.1 The Nazi Cult of Motherhood
l In Nazi Germany, children were told women were different from men. Boys were taught
to be aggressive, masculine and steel-hearted and girls were told to become good mothers
and rear pure-blooded Aryan children.
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