Minorities+Mao+and+Hitler


 * __W__****__hat this criterion means for the single party state leader__**
 * 1) Who are the minorities?
 * Ethnic
 * Religious
 * Social minorities (homosexuals,mentally/emotionally/physically challenged)

2. Treatment will depend on the ideology of the state
 * Strong nationalists/racial emphasis will seek to discriminate/eliminate minorities because they could threaten their goals/power
 * Minorities could impede need for race/language/culture uniformity
 * Placed in inferior positions legally/socially to establish racial hierarchy
 * Regarded as saboteurs with links outside the state


 * __Hitler's Treatment of Minorities__**


 * 1) Minorities were people who were not perfect and of the aryan race, ethnic/religious/social minorities
 * Homosexuals
 * Mentally handicap
 * Physically disabled
 * Jewish
 * Poles
 * Communist opponents
 * Roma
 * Soviet POWs
 * Jehovah's Witnesses

2. Nazism, Fascism involving biological racism and anti-Semitism
 * Killed social undesirables because they were considered enemies of the state
 * Nuremberg Laws- 1935, took away citizenship from Jews, instated racial hierarchy
 * Kristallnacht- 1938, pogrom against Jewish,
 * T-4 Euthanasia Program- 1939-1941, promoting racial hygiene/purity and trying to achieve the "master race" by killing 50,000-60,000 "unfit" people
 * Forced sterilization of 400,000 "subhumans"
 * Displacement, internment, and systematic extermination of 11- 12 million people in WWII, mostly Jewish (Holocaust)


 * __Mao's Treatment of Minorities__**


 * 1) Minorities were non- Han Chinese, ethnic/religious minorities
 * Tibetans
 * Uighurs
 * Hui Muslims
 * Mongols

2. Communist, do not want to identify conflicting objectives or sectarian interests
 * Communist party and politically elite know what is best for minorities
 * During revolution (1940s) he promised minorities independence but then shifted to "autonomy"
 * Designated autonomous regions where minorities are guaranteed, with limits, rights to express/develop culture and representation politically
 * Followed Stalin's guidelines on treatment of minorities
 * The Cultural Revolution- 1966-1976 damaged cultures in China, 6,000 monasteries were destroyed in Tibet, 790,000 people persecuted in Inner Mongolia, schools were destroyed and books were burned
 * Shadian Incident- 1975, People's LIberation Army killed 1,000 Hui


 * __Analysis__**
 * 1) Mao and Hitler both targeted ethnic/religious minorities but Hitler also persicuted many social minorities
 * 2) Mao tried to let them live peacefully within China for the most part while Hitler felt more threaten by their prescence due to a difference in their ideologies