Racial policy of Nazi Germany
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The racial policy of Nazi Germany was a set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany, asserting the superiority of the "Aryan race", and based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy. It was combined with a eugenics programme that aimed for racial hygiene by using compulsory sterilizations and extermination of the Untermensch (or "sub-humans"), and which eventually culminated in the Holocaust. These policies targeted peoples, in particular Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and handicapped people, who were labeled as "inferior" in a racial hierarchy that placed the Herrenvolk (or "master race") of the Volksgemeinschaft (or "national community") at the top, and ranked Russians, Romani, persons of color and Jews at the bottom.
See also
- Aryanization
- Germanization
- Nazi eugenics
- Nationalsozialistischer Reichsbund für Leibesübungen
- Generalplan Ost
- Greater Germanic Reich
- Blood money laws
- Anti-Jewish legislation in prewar Nazi Germany
- Consequences of German Nazism
- Holocaust
- Porajmos
- Persecution of homosexuals in Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
- Josef Mengele
- T-4 Euthanasia Program
- The Reich Citizenship Law
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- Racialism
- Aryan paragraph