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The Nazi regime used language and media with care and often to great effect . The terms they
coined to describe their various practices are not only deceptive. They are chilling. Nazis never
used the words kill or murder in their official communications. Mass killings were termed
special treatment, final solution(for the Jews),euthanasia(for the disabled),selection and
disinfections. Evacuation meant deporting people to gas chambers. Do you know what the gas
chambers were called? They were labelled disinfection areas. and look like bathrooms equipped
with fake showerheads.
1.Explain about Hitler’s Euthanasia programme.
2.Hitlers racism borrowed from whom?
3. Do you support/oppose Hitler’s racism? Why?
Answers
Answer:
1:The Euthanasia Program was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany. It predated the genocide of European Jewry (the Holocaust) by approximately two years. The program was one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial "integrity" of the German nation. It aimed to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered "life unworthy of life": those individuals who—they believed—because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented both a genetic and a financial burden on German society and the state.
2:NAZI RACISM
3:Historically, it is impossible to ignore the impact of Hitler on the social and philosophical concept of race. By the start of World War II in 1939 his book Mein Kampf had sold 5200000 copies and been translated into 11 languages. His views had a particular impact on the practice of medicine. Reading Hitler today ought to increase the resolve of medical and other health professionals – ‘the staunchest supporters of the Nazi regime’ – to combat racism. ‘Inter-racial’ divisions in modern society are still reflected in health gradients, and modern genetics has re-awoken discussion of eugenic theories. This paper, based on quotations from Hitler on racial admixture, the superiority of the Aryan race and the creation of a superior society, seeks to assist professionals in health and health sciences to reflect on these writings and to strengthen anti-racism in public health, medicine and science. The author contends that racism is a major public health issue.