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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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Many people lost their lives due to the harsh and vicious actions of Adolf Hitler along with the help of other cruel leaders at the time . This genocide, led by Hitler, began in order to create the “perfect race”. Hitler and his followers had believed that Aryans , or their ideal race, was destined to take over Germany and reign over the world. To achieve this perfect race the Nazis believed they had to wipe out all groups that did not fit their standards.

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Prior to the start of the Euthanasia Program, Hitler attempted to accomplish racial cleansing when he passed the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases.” In 1933, just six years prior to the birth of the Euthanasia Program, this law was enacted and required the sterilization of people with hereditary diseases. These diseased people included schizophrenics, handicaps, the blind and

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And in the process of creating his aryan race, he massacred 6 million jewish people and 5 million non-jews. He did this by concentration camps, they are basically camps built for murdering people. The Nazies had killing people down to a science, how long to leave them in the gas chambers and what type of gas kills the people the fastest, things of that nature. And finale when nations had seen enough they stepped in but most of the damage had been dealt. But what if people had stepped in sooner?

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After Hitler and his followers gained complete control over Germany, the people still living in the country would live in fear every day knowing there life and there families’ were at risk. The camps were first designed to punish politicians and people who opposed Hitler and the government but overtime they essentially became extermination camps. They were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable (USF). Adolf Hitler believed that this was crucial for his plan to carry out the way he wanted it to. He did not want anyone who opposed him to be free so he eliminated anyone who did so.

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Nazi's had the ability to execute citizens whom did this. They had laws for nearly any act just like this one. It was extremely unfair, especially to those negatively impacted by

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Germany’s Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses, or Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased offspring, considered vague and poorly defined criteria like “Congenital Mental Deficiency” as entirely valid criteria for forced sterilization (Miller, 193). However, while America’s largest eugenics-based atrocities mostly are restrained to sterilization, Nazi Germany had no such limitations. After making efforts to sterilize those that were seen as Die Untermenschen, or “sub-humans”, Germany expanded their efforts to remove those human elements that were seen as more useful alive than dead. Championing an Aryan “master race”, Nazi Germany opened exterminations camps and systematically murdered those were who were not only seen as racially inferior, but socially useless.

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With the recent technological advancements in medical treatments, society has often coined being ‘disabled’ as a negative term. According to Rachel Adams in the article Disability, Adams discusses that the term ‘disability’ is dependent upon sociological ideologies as much as it is dependent upon bodily conditions. In today’s society new technological advancements such as prenatal screening encourages the elimination of human traits to reduce suffering (Adams 6). Currently the Americans with Disability Act counters some of the eugenic practices in todays society by encouraging open public spaces for disability users and

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For example, if a building was made with ramps in place of stairs, wheelchair accessible bathrooms and offices, and office equipment that was height adjustable, then what lack of ability would someone in a wheelchair have? By providing these changes, their disability has been removed, although their impairment (having legs that do not function well enough for them to walk) has not changed. In 1975, the Union of the Physically Impaired Against Segregation (UPIAS) summed up the issue exquisitely: “Disability is something imposed on top of our impairments, by the way we are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society (Slorach, 2016: 29).” Disability activism has typically engaged in identity politics, similar to that of queer activism (Anspach, 1979; Taylor & Raeburn, 1995; Prince 2012). It looks to replace the “self- and societal-conceptions of people with disabilities from passive, deviant, and powerless to positive, self created conceptions for themselves” (Prince, 2012: 4).

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