Asocial<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
People were defined as \u00bbasocial\u00ab and faced persecution if they did not fit into the \u00bbnational community\u00ab (\u00bbVolksgemeinschaft<\/a>\u00ab) under Nazism. The groups affected were primarily the unemployed, the homeless, prostitutes or non-conformist youth. They were accused of posing a danger to society. The welfare authorities, justice system and police were among the institutions which worked together to persecute these individuals. They created a dense network of surveillance and compulsory measures.<\/p>\n Die \u00bbVolks\u00adgemeinschaft\u00ab ist das nationalsozialistische Ideal des Zusammenlebens von deutschen \u00bbVolksgenossen\u00ab. Wer dazugeh\u00f6rt und wer nicht, bestimmen rassistische Kriterien. Die Ausgeschlossenen werden als \u00bbVolkssch\u00e4dlinge\u00ab herabgew\u00fcrdigt. Zu ihnen z\u00e4hlen Juden und J\u00fcdinnen, Sinti und Roma, politische Gegner\/-innen, Menschen mit Behinderungen, Homosexuelle, aber auch \u00bbAsoziale\u00ab und \u00bbBerufsverbrecher\u00ab.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n People were defined as \u00bbasocial\u00ab and faced persecution if they did not fit into the \u00bbnational community\u00ab (\u00bbVolksgemeinschaft<\/a>\u00ab) under Nazism. The groups affected were primarily the unemployed, the homeless, prostitutes or non-conformist youth. They were accused of posing a danger to society. The welfare authorities, justice system and police were among the institutions which worked together to persecute these individuals. They created a dense network of surveillance and compulsory measures.<\/p>\n Die \u00bbVolks\u00adgemeinschaft\u00ab ist das nationalsozialistische Ideal des Zusammenlebens von deutschen \u00bbVolksgenossen\u00ab. Wer dazugeh\u00f6rt und wer nicht, bestimmen rassistische Kriterien. Die Ausgeschlossenen werden als \u00bbVolkssch\u00e4dlinge\u00ab herabgew\u00fcrdigt. Zu ihnen z\u00e4hlen Juden und J\u00fcdinnen, Sinti und Roma, politische Gegner\/-innen, Menschen mit Behinderungen, Homosexuelle, aber auch \u00bbAsoziale\u00ab und \u00bbBerufsverbrecher\u00ab.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n During World War Two, workers were not permitted to leave or change their job. Labour service was compulsory and had a similar significance to military service. Anyone in contravention of the rules was reported by designated labour supervisors (\u00bbTrustees of Labour\u00ab) for \u00bbdisloyalty\u00ab, \u00bbbreach of contract\u00ab or \u00bbslacking\u00ab. A few days\u2019 absence was enough to incur a punishment. Offenders faced prison or being sent to a concentration camp or a \u00bbwork education camp\u00ab, another type of forced labour facility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n<\/article>\n Since the 1920s the term \u00bbcareer criminal\u00ab had been used to define people who made a living through crime. In November 1933 the Nazis took decisive action against this group by means of \u00bbpreventive police custody\u00ab. Anyone who had received three prison sentences of at least six months over a five-year period was classed as a \u00bbcareer criminal\u00ab. The Criminal Police was able to place such individuals in \u00bbpreventive custody\u00ab even if they were not suspected of any new offence.<\/p>\n\n<\/article>\n The term \u00bbcivilian worker\u00ab denoted people deployed to undertake work in agriculture and the armaments industry. Unlike prisoners of war or concentration camp prisoners, these individuals were not under the authority of the Wehrmacht<\/a>, SS<\/a> or Gestapo<\/a> but instead were employed by companies, authorities, farmers or families. The term was used to describe both foreign forced labourers and German civilian workers.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Das deutsche Milit\u00e4r hei\u00dft ab 1935 Wehrmacht. Bis 1945 schw\u00f6ren insgesamt 17 Millionen Soldaten ihren unbedingten Gehorsam auf die Person Adolf Hitlers. Die Wehrmacht \u00fcberf\u00e4llt und besetzt fast alle L\u00e4nder Europas und ver\u00fcbt zahlreiche Kriegsverbrechen: Sie brennt ganze Orte nieder und f\u00fchrt im Osten einen Vernichtungskrieg gegen J\u00fcdinnen und Juden, Sinti und Roma sowie die weitere Bev\u00f6lkerung. Erst in den 1990er Jahren findet eine kontroverse Auseinandersetzung mit den Verbrechen der Wehrmacht statt.<\/p>\n<\/div> Die SS (\u00bbSchutzstaffel\u00ab) unter der Leitung von Heinrich Himmler versteht sich als elit\u00e4rer Wehrverband des nationalsozialistischen Staates. Mit der \u00dcbernahme und dem Umbau der Polizei durch Himmler wird die SS zum zentralen Terrorinstrument des Regimes. 1934 erh\u00e4lt sie erh\u00e4lt die Kontrolle \u00fcber s\u00e4mtliche Konzentrationslager. Das 1939 gebildete Reichssicherheitshauptamt, die Planungszentrale f\u00fcr die Verbrechen im deutsch besetzten Europa, ist ihr zugeordnet.<\/p>\n<\/div> Die Nationalsozialisten schaffen die \u00bbGeheime Staatspolizei\u00ab zur Bek\u00e4mpfung politischer Gegner\/-innen. Auch an der Verfolgung von Minderheiten ist sie ma\u00dfgeblich beteiligt. Ohne richterliche Pr\u00fcfung k\u00f6nnen Beamte Wohnungen durchsuchen, Personen inhaftieren, in Konzentrationslager bringen oder ermorden. Sie erzwingen in Verh\u00f6ren Gest\u00e4ndnisse unter Folter. In den besetzten Gebieten sind Ge\u00adstapo\u00adbeamte an Massenerschie\u00dfungen und anderen Verbrechen beteiligt.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n After the war various regulations were implemented to compensate people persecuted under National Socialism. West Germany introduced the Federal Compensation Law (BEG) regulating compensation payments and pensions. In East Germany survivors received money and material assistance from the \u00bbcommittees for the victims of fascism\u00ab. In Austria potential claims were regulated by the Victims Welfare Act. In all three states people persecuted as \u00bbasocials\u00ab and \u00bbcareer criminals\u00ab remained ineligible for compensation for decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n<\/article>\n Term for all detention facilities set up by the Nazis to hold real or perceived political opponents of the regime. Prisoners perished as a result of heavy forced labour, malnourishment, disease, torture, and also of targeted and arbitrary murder. The camps were under the authority of the SS<\/a> (\u00bbSchutzstaffel\u00ab). Between 1933 and 1945 a total of 2.5 to 3.5 million people were imprisoned in concentration camps.<\/p>\n Die SS (\u00bbSchutzstaffel\u00ab) unter der Leitung von Heinrich Himmler versteht sich als elit\u00e4rer Wehrverband des nationalsozialistischen Staates. Mit der \u00dcbernahme und dem Umbau der Polizei durch Himmler wird die SS zum zentralen Terrorinstrument des Regimes. 1934 erh\u00e4lt sie erh\u00e4lt die Kontrolle \u00fcber s\u00e4mtliche Konzentrationslager. Das 1939 gebildete Reichssicherheitshauptamt, die Planungszentrale f\u00fcr die Verbrechen im deutsch besetzten Europa, ist ihr zugeordnet.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/article>\n The Youth Wel\u00adfare Office was able to remove children and teenagers from their families and place them in a reformatory. \u00a0Behaviour was usually cited as the reason. Young people were placed in correctional education facilities after running away from home, for example. The National Socialist Youth Wel\u00adfare Offices did not seek to establish the causes of this behaviour. They demanded that young people obey. Anyone who did not was judged to be \u00bbineducable\u00ab. Such individuals faced forced sterilisation or admission to psychiatric institutions and youth concentration camps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n<\/article>\n If someone was transferred to a labour facility after serving their prison sentence, this was referred to as \u00bbpost-detention\u00ab. It applied to those who had been punished for begging, \u00bbvagrancy\u00ab or prostitution. They had to undertake forced labour in workhouses for a period of up to two years. Their stay was intended to educate them; since 1794 \u00bbpost-detention\u00ab had been defined as \u00bbcorrectional\u00ab under Prussian law. The Federal Constitutional Court of West Germany did not outlaw this type of imprisonment until 1969.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAsocials<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Breach of contract<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Career Criminal<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Civilian worker<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Compensation<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Concentration camp<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Correctional education<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n
Correctional post-detention<\/h2>\n\t<\/header>\n\n\t\n