Racial segregation

Racial segregation is a kind of formalized or institutionalized discrimination on the basis of race. It is characterized by the races' separation from each other when both are doing equal tasks, such as eating in a restaurant. However, segregation often allows close contact in hierarchical situations, such as when a person of one race is working as a servant for the member of another race. Segregation can involve spatial separation of the races, and/or the use of different institutions, such as schools by different races. See also: racism.

Nazi Germany

An example of miscegenation laws was the racist and anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws enacted by the Nazis in Germany against the large German Jewish community during the 1930s. The laws prohibited marriages between Jews (deemed as Untermenschen - "lower people") and German "Aryans" (deemed the Herrenvolk - "master race"). Many interfaith and intermarried couples committed suicide when these laws came into effect.

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Miscegenation - Anti-Semitic - Nuremberg Laws - Nazis - Germany - Jew - 1930s - Untermensch - Aryan - Herrenvolk

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Under the General Government of occupied Poland in 1940, the population was divided into different groups, each with different rights, food rations, allowed strips in the cities, public transportation, and assigned

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General Government - Poland - 1940

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• Ukrainians,
• Highlanders (Goralenvolk) - an attempt to split the Polish nation by using local collaborators
• Poles,
• Jews (eventually sentenced to extermination as a category).

During the 1930s and 40s, Jews and Roma were forced to wear yellow ribbons, and were discriminated against by the racial laws. Jewish doctors and professors were not allowed to teach Aryan pupils or treat Aryan patients. Later, during WWII, Jews and Roma were sent to the concentration camps, solely on the basis of their race.

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1930s - 40s - Roma - Aryan - WWII - Concentration camp

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