Racial State begins Flashcards
What were the Weimar views on disabilities??
Mental - some research had been done
Physical - Some state assistance for some but Prussian state had drafted a sterilisation law.
What were the Nazi views on disabilities??
Birth rate needed to be purified to make up for WW1 bit also preventing “defects”
What was the Initial sterilisation?
July 1933 - Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny
Compulsory for “Inferiors”
Chronic Alcoholism
Blindness or deafness
Schizophrenia or Epilepsy
Aged 10 + changed to 14+ ( with no legal rep)
How did the sterilisation develop??
“35 Pregnant woman who would be can get abortions
“36 x-ray sterilisation of woman 38+
Hereditary Health counts
Decision - 10 mins
Operation - within 2 weeks
60% of these sterilised were “feeble minded IQ 49 and below
How many people were sterilised??
400,000
What were the origins of Euthanasia??
Disabled and long-term were a “burden”
Early “39 citizen wrote a private letter to Hitler asking for his disabled child to be put to sleep. Dr Philip Bouhler ( Hitlers chief of office ) made sure he saw it. SS doctor Karl Brandt sent to do it. Hitler promised to protect doctors from prosecution from “mercy killings”
Oct 1939 - authorised for mentally and physically disabled to get euthanasia.
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What were asocials??
Encompassed :
Alcoholic , unemployed, homosexuals, sex workers, beggars and criminals
What happened to the Asocials??
Sep 1933 - 300,000 - 500,000 rounded up to work for accommodate or sent concentration camp
1936 - beggars rounded up before olympics
1936 - Hashude “Asocial colony” set up to integrate into society
1938 - “beggars, tramps, pimps and gypsies” Buchenwald concentration camp
What policies towards Homosexuals??
Was outlawed before 1933, flourished in Berlin and other large cities
1933 - purge of literature and organisations and clubs
1934 - Gestapp began to compile lists of gay people and targeted them especially during night of the long knives ( Rohm )
1935 - laws changed so harder punishment and wider scope leading t0 22,000 men being arrested and imprisoned between between 1936-1938
1936 - Himmler created the Reich Office for the Combatting of Homosexuality and Abortion meant 100,000 men arrested and 50,000 were convicted but after sentence served they were “re-arrested” and sent to concentration camp where they suffered particularly bad harm.
