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Comparing The Disability Rights Movement And The Nazi Third Reich

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The statement “while grievance regarding medical issues can be addressed in a democratic society, no such avenue is available in a genocidal totalitarian regime such as the Nazi Third Reich” depict the two books “The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation” and “The Nazi Doctors” written by Doris Zames Fleischer and Frieda Zames and Jay Lifton respectively. While Nazi Third Reich commit many atrocities, at the same time disabilities were treated as something like despicable in human society. In today’s society, people has made significant improvements in the quality and morality of citizen, and because the existence of a healthy democracy, the treatment to people with disabilities has a major improvement as compared to years ago.
The first book “The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to Confrontation” talked about numerous problems that people with disabilities has to face in our society as well as being deprived of the basic needs of life as compared to people without disabilities. The common theme for the book is accessibility, that is, people with disabilities were being left out of opportunities to get a job, get a good education, …show more content…

When Hitler took control, he issued a law to prevent any hereditary disease. His motive was to kill and wipe anybody that were not part of Aryan race. To achieve, this Adolf Hitler had lawyers and doctors who monitor medical record and choose the people who need to be sterilized. They succeeded by sterilized and killing innocent people without their consent. The practices were called eugenics and euthanasia. The victims of the Nazi genocide were the Jews people with disability, and also part of a mix race. He was able to succeed in that by killing children, and adult. He expanded his killing spree to even people in the prison that have

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