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Nazi Germany's Euthanasia Program

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Nazi Germany thought of disabled people as “life unworthy of life” so they created the Euthanasia Program “The Euthanasia Program was the first mass murder in Nazi Germany” “The term Euthanasia means literally good death” “It usually refers to the induement of a painless death for a chronically or otherwise suffer.” “In the spring and summer months of 1939, a number of planners began to organize a secret killing operation targeting disabled children.” “As early as 1939, the Nazis began to kill tens of thousands of disabled, retarded, and mentally ill Germans.” In January 1934 Nazi started to sterilize people by law because of their race, by secret order, outside the previsions of the law. On July 14 1933 the Hitler cabinet promulgated the
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