JS 211gw Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Aktion T4, Law For The Prevention Of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, Bipolar Disorder
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Nazi euthanasia program: prelude to the final solution . Nazis concerned with two different groups of outsides. Other races (like jews: gypsies, afro germans. Degenerates: people with mental illness, people who were intellectually delayed. Positive eugenics: making races breed together to create the most superior race. Negative eugenics: make sure the eugenics did not breed. Looking at how racial program of the nazis applied to other groups beyond the jews. People who facilitated these programs: doctors and nurses and midwifes in the system of negative eugenics, medical profession. Look at the nazi mass murder program the euthanasia program. The law for the prevention of genetically diseased offspring. Asocials : vague term applied to various unwanted elements of german society, often asocials were seen as prone to criminality, vagabondage, loose women, unproductive members of society, alcoholics, perpetually unemployed. Until 1933 sterilization was illegal in u. s. But it was legal in denmark, sweden, finland, iceland .
