3. THE S.S. THE
ARYAN
ELITE
All children of 10 years and above had
to join one of the Hitler Youth
Organisations.
These were under the control of the SS.
The HJ were useful for instilling
loyalty to the Nazis, identifying future
SS members, and preparing German
Youth for future wars.
Hitler believed women’s prime role ,
especially those who had ‘Aryan’ physical
features, was to increase the number of
Aryan children. SS officers had the role to
breed with such women and could have
several. Special homes were set up ‘Well of
Life’ homes were established to look after
such women.
It was important to know who
belonged to which race, so the Nazis
introduced a series of racial tests on
the population – assessing eye
colour, and hair, nose shapes, etc.
It was thought that handicapped people
might weaken the ‘German’ blood-line so
first they were isolated, then later it was
decided to eliminate/murder them.
Were rounded up and placed in concentration
camps where they were worked to death.
Jews were regarded as less than human, as vermin.
At first Nazis policy was to force them out of
Germany but during World War 2 it became official
policy to eliminate them as a race – ‘genocide’.

4. Checking the passes of
Jews.

7. As a little girl, Anna-Maria Ernst lived a happy life among her relatives. She
lost almost all of them. She was the only one of her immediate family to
survive the horror of the concentration camps.