HST 295 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Volksgemeinschaft, Eugenics, Aryan Paragraph
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Disability: mental or physical, most directly targeted, targeted by marriage loans, pollutants of the social body . Negative eugenics: preventing reproduction, getting rid of the weeds, welfare state flipped on its head. In the welfare state, if a person is disabled, the government makes life easier. In the third reich, having a child with a disability is grounds to take things away. How: forced sterilization, people with disabilities, see list in the book for a more detailed list of who this applied to, feeble mindedness is the most common. Diagnosis anyone could be feeble minded: alcoholics, criminals, poor people, prostitutes, mixed-race people, homeless. Jews were not the only ones, but they were the model for discrimination against all other non-german groups : antisemitism pre-nuremberg, following enabling act: law for the restoration of the professional civil. Service (purged jews from public service), legalized by the aryan clause: laws against overcrowding of schools april 1933, restricted the # of.
