The Mentally And Physically Handicapped: Victims of the Nazi Era

Kyt · Oct 25, 2007

http://www.holocaust-trc.org/hndcp.htm

This brochure describes the Nazi treatment of handicaped people from 1933-1945. You may link to the contents by selecting either the title above or the cover in the left hand margin.

Soon after Hiltler took power, the Nazis formulated policy based on their vision of biologically "pure" population, to create an "Aryan master race." The "Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases," proclaimed July 14, 1933, forced the sterilization of all persons who suffered from diseases considered hereditary, such as mental illness (schizophfrenia and manic depression), retardation ("congenital feeble-mindedness"), physical deformithy, epilepsy, blindness, deafness, and severe alcolholism.
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Kyt · Oct 25, 2007

Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany

http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/

The methods used for mass extermination in the Nazi death camps originated and were perfected in earlier use against people with physical, emotional, and intellectual disabilities. Developed from the article by Dr. Mark Mostert, this website describes the historical context of attitudes toward people with disabilities in Germany and how this context produced mass murder of people with disabilities prior to and during the early years of World War II.
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The site presentation opens in a Flash pop-up, in an audio-visual format. If you don't wish to or unable to view that format, then the original artcile is available as a text pdf:

http://www.regent.edu/acad/schedu/uselesseaters/text/2743414051_1.pdf

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