By The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 2016
The Nazi Party ruled Germany from 1933-1945 and was led by Adolf Hitler. A key component of Nazi rule was an
attempt to "purify the German race by killing anyone who had "impurities," which included Jews, Roma (Gypsies),
and people with physical or mental disabilities, among others. To achieve this goal, the Nazi government killed 6
million Jews and 5 million others. The Nazi euthanasia program was one of the first programs of mass murder created
to achieve their goal. As you read, identify the causes and effects of the Nazi "euthanasia" program.
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The term "euthanasia" (literally "good death") usually refers to the inducement of a painless death for a
chronically or terminally ill individual who would otherwise suffer. In the Nazi context, however,
"euthanasia" was a euphemism for a clandestine murder program of disabled patients living in institutional
settings in Germany and German-annexed territories. The program was Nazi Germany's first policy of mass
murder. Like those who planned the genocide of European Jews, the organizers of the "euthanasia" program
imagined a racially pure and productive society and embraced radical strategies to eliminate those who did not
fit within their vision
On August 18, 1939, the German government issued a decree compelling medical personnel to report
newborns and children under the age of three with severe disability. In October 1939, authorities began to
encana manents of children with dieabilitine to admit them to radiatrie clinice The clinics were in reali
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