Explain the Nazi idea of a racial state. OR Mentions five steps adopted by the Nazis to establish a racial state.

Explain the Nazi idea of a racial state. 

OR 

Mentions five steps adopted by the Nazis to establish a racial state.

Ans.

The five steps adopted by the Nazis to establish a racial state were :

(i) Nazi ideology stated that the Nordic German Aryans were at the top and the Jews were located at the lowest rung of society.

(ii) The Jews, Gypsies and Blacks were regarded as racially impure and undersirable and they were widely persecuted.

(iii) Under the Euthanasia programme, many Germans who were considered mentally or physically unfit were sentenced to death.

(iv) Russians and Poles were considered as subhuman and captured civilians from Russia and Poland were forced to work as slave labour.

(v) From 1933 to 1938, the Nazis terrorised, pauperised and segregated the Jews, compelling them to leave Germany. From 1939 to 1945, a large number of them were killed in gas chambers in Poland.