Nazis believed in superiority of the Aryan race. Through their 12 years in power ⇒ Nazis wanted to use eugenics to improve Aryan race ⇒ through euthanasia and sterilization program. ⇒ persecuted members of other races and minority groups ⇒ Roma, Homosexuals, and mentally ill people. ⇒ persecuted any group that they felt challenged Nazi ideas.
300000 men and women ⇒ forcefully sterilized between 1934 and 1945. Euthanasia program ⇒ of disabled and mentally ill people ⇒ even if they were of Aryan race ⇒ began in 1939. at least 5000 disabled babies and children ⇒ killed between 1939 and 1945 ⇒ by either injection or starvation. Between 1939 and 1941 ⇒ 72000 mentally ill patients ⇒ gassed ⇒ before public outcry in Germany ended extermination.
there was little protest of Roma. Roma living in Germany in 1939 ⇒ killed by Nazis Little to no complaint about treatment of homosexuals, and so called asocial ⇒ alcoholics, prostitutes, homeless. Habitual criminals, beggars ⇒ rounded up off streets and taken to concentration camps.