Application to Nazi Party
(1940)
The Nazis went to great lengths to determine
Germans who had pure Aryan descent in order to ensure a pure German nation. All kinds
of criteria was used including caricatures showing Jewish types and
the testing of pure Aryans by determining their genealogical Aryan purity.
This was for the express purpose of weeding out Jewish
or other non-pure Aryan blood. For example, Germans wishing to join
the Nazi party had
to undergo rigorous questioning to determine their genealogy.
These
documents show the methods used by the
Nazis to exclude German Jews from all facets of German society.
They were used to determine that an
applicant for the Nazi party was a full blooded German
whose parents and grandparents were also pure Germans.
To join the SS,
one had to fill out an additional document going back to great great
grandparents to determine a pure blood German. These documents show the extent to which the Nazis tried to foster a pure blood Aryan race.
Sources: Yad
Vashem
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