WOH-4244 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Japanese Militarism, Lebensborn, Eugenics
Document Summary
Versailles treaty (check class notes for more detail) Hitler comes to power in 1933, does not care about versailles treaty (not a secret) Mussolini aug 1940 sees germans winning victories and orders troops to start attacking things. 1931 manchuria (north of korea, not part of china) Japanese could take it over, gain control of major railroad. Some junior officers come up with plot to kill warlord and are successful. Communists, people with antisocial tendencies, meants for antimoral germans (homeless, homosexuals, mentally ill, drug addicts, criminals, genetic disorders) Labor camps to some extent (not mass extermination camps) but many still die. Many (children) were voluntarily sent by families at suggestion of nazi party. For unwed aryan mothers with aryan children where they could have their child. Direct attempt by nazis to encourage aryan pregnancies. Criminalize sexual relations between jews and germans. Jewish - 3 or 4 jewish grandparents. Existing interracial marriages were not forced to dissolve.
