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Eugenics – “Racial Hygiene”
SCIENCE OF SALVATION(Weimar Eugenics 1919-1933)• 2 million German men were
killed in World War I• The “unfit” (mentally and
physically disabled) were being kept alive and were reproducing
• “Race mixing” causing “racial degeneration”
• Concerns about the passing on of undesirable traits through reproduction
Nazi Eugenics Propaganda: “One alcoholic will have 894 descendants in 83 years—40 will live in poverty, 67 will be criminals, 7 murderers, 181
prostitutes, 142 beggars
• Further concerns about the cost of care for those mentally and/or physically disabled
• The government was “throwing away money to support those less valuable to society”
• Fear for the survival of the “superior Aryan race”
“An entire healthy German family can live for one day for the same it costs to support a hereditarily ill person for the same amount of time”
Images/Propaganda 1919-1933
“Life as a burden”
“…because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.”
THE BIOLOGICAL STATE(Nazi Racial Hygiene 1933-1939)• The Nazi Party aimed to
strengthen the “national body” by eliminating “threatening genes” from the population
• Jews were purged from universities, scientific research, hospitals, and public health care
“Racial composition of Jews: The Jews are a mixture of alien Near Eastern, oriental, Hamite, and Negroid races”
• The entire country’s population was measured for hereditary/genetic make up
• Marital Health Law banned unions between “hereditarily healthy” and persons deemed genetically unfit
• Law for Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring made forced sterilization of those deemed “unfit” legal
“The experience! Racial pride fades”
• The Nazis began forced emigration of Jews in 1938
• Kristallnacht (the night of broken glass) Nazi organized and sanctioned attack on Jewish property
Images/Propaganda 1933-1939Examples of “acceptable” Aryan facial types
FINAL SOLUTIONS(Murderous Racial Hygiene 1939-1945)• Nazis began euthanasia
programs for the “undesirable”
• First victims were infants and children
• More than 5,000 boys and girls were killed
• Officials deceived the children’s families by providing falsified causes of death
Edith F. was a victim of the Nazi Euthanasia Program
The Nazi Regime award the “Cross of German Motherhood” to Aryan women who had several children. Bronze 4-5, Silver 6-7, Gold 8 or more
Images/Propaganda 1939-1945
Norbert P. was another child victim of the euthanasia program