HIST 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Aryan Nations, Epilepsy, Visual Impairment
Document Summary
History 5- lecture #5- the spirit of science and the origins of the final solution. Law for the prevention of hereditarily diseased offspring (1933) Groups perceived to threaten the vigor of the german party politic. Asocial or feeble minded are also targeted. These groups become systematically persecuted- nazis will cross the line into mass murder. Happens 2 years before they start mass killing of jews. Earliest prisoners include political opponents, homosexuals, and jehovah"s witnesses. These camps are intended to be places where they systematically kill inmates, conditions are terrible still. Near urban areas, they are not hidden, not secret. The newspapers, operated by nazis, cover the camps extensively to deter others from going against them. Communist and socialists (political opponents) are the first ones to become prisoners. Sent there for a sentence of hard labor, imprisoned without a trial, for the good of the german people to keep troublemakers away from the rest of society.
