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  State any five measures taken by the Nazis to create a pure German racial state. Or Explain any three steps taken by Hitler to establish racial state.                   Or Explain the Nazi idea of a racial state.               

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                  (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 'undesirable', and they were widely persecuted. (iii) Under the Euthanasia programme, many Germans who were considered mentally or  physically unfit were condemned 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.