How Did Hitler Become Aryan Society
The Nazi Germany is one of the most popular party in history that is led by the notoriously known Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler was a German dictatorship that ruled Nazi Germany through the years of 1933 to 1945. Under his rule, there were approximately 11 million people that lost their lives, the source of these death tolls being the Jews, the disabled, religion believers, and anyone else who did not fulfill the “Aryan” characteristics.
As Hitler once said, “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise”. Hitler strongly believed that propaganda had the ability to completely change society’s way of thinking about an idea and so he, along with the Nazis began a huge propaganda campaign against mentally and physically disabled Germans. As the disabled people did not fit into the Nazi stereotype of the pure Aryan society, they were then viewed as a burden on the society because Nazis …show more content…
thought that they were unable to work and drained resources from the state that they did not deserve in the first place.
According to theholocaustexplained.org, on July 1933, the Nazis passed the “Law for the Prevention Progeny with Hereditary Diseases” which regards the allowance of forced sterilization of 350,000 men and women who were believed to produce “inferior” children (Nazi treatment of the disabled, www.theholocaustexplained.org). With the law’s passage, the Nazis also stepped up its propaganda against the disabled by repeatedly calling them “unworthy of life” and “a burden to the society”. A few years passed by, and by the end of 1939, Hitler along with the Nazis created an euthanasia program, in which targeted for systematic killing the mentally and physically disabled people of Germany. In this euthanasia program, it required the help of many German doctors to review the medical files of patients in institutions and get the
authority to determine which handicapped or mentally ill individuals should be killed. These doctors were also instructed to supervise the actual killings in order to make sure that everything goes as planned. Although the term “euthanasia” itself meant “good death” and refers to the inducement of a painless death for those who are chronically or terminally ill, the program did not offer such “painless method” and instead the very opposite. The method of killing was done in such excruciating ways, which includes the method of constructed gas chambers, injection with a deadly dose of drugs, and starvation. This immediately resulted into at least 70,000 deaths between the years of 1939 to 1941.
Throughout the years of 1939 to 1941, the years in which the euthanasia program was without intended known publicly, both the Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany opposed against the euthanasia program. According to historian and author Richard J. Evans, the protests then led to “the strongest, most explicit and most widespread movement against any policy since the beginning of Third Reich. (The Third Reich at War, Richard J. Evans, page 98). As Hitler feared a public uprising happening among Germany, he ordered a stop to the killings. However, not long afterwards, he found out a new way to proceed the euthanasia program. Hitler suggested that during wartime, “it was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill” as the attention would be brought onto the war and not the disabled people. This technique is considered as a censorship as Hitler believed that since there was a bigger event occurring, people would tend to pay more attention towards the war instead of the harm Hitler would do to the disabled. Hitler along with his party then reopened the secret program, now called the “T4 Program” in which eliminates disabled people by killing them in such violent and painful ways as mentioned before. The bodies of the victims were then burned in large ovens called crematoria. (The Holocaust, www.ushmm.org)
As Hitler himself mentioned, “Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”. The publicity of the euthanasia program has led Germans into fear for those who are mentally and physically disabled as in a short amount of time they would die in such excruciating yet sudden ways.
As Hitler once said, “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise”. Hitler strongly believed that propaganda had the ability to completely change society’s way of thinking about an idea and so he, along with the Nazis began a huge propaganda campaign against mentally and physically disabled Germans. As the disabled people did not fit into the Nazi stereotype of the pure Aryan society, they were then viewed as a burden on the society because Nazis …show more content…
thought that they were unable to work and drained resources from the state that they did not deserve in the first place.
According to theholocaustexplained.org, on July 1933, the Nazis passed the “Law for the Prevention Progeny with Hereditary Diseases” which regards the allowance of forced sterilization of 350,000 men and women who were believed to produce “inferior” children (Nazi treatment of the disabled, www.theholocaustexplained.org). With the law’s passage, the Nazis also stepped up its propaganda against the disabled by repeatedly calling them “unworthy of life” and “a burden to the society”. A few years passed by, and by the end of 1939, Hitler along with the Nazis created an euthanasia program, in which targeted for systematic killing the mentally and physically disabled people of Germany. In this euthanasia program, it required the help of many German doctors to review the medical files of patients in institutions and get the
authority to determine which handicapped or mentally ill individuals should be killed. These doctors were also instructed to supervise the actual killings in order to make sure that everything goes as planned. Although the term “euthanasia” itself meant “good death” and refers to the inducement of a painless death for those who are chronically or terminally ill, the program did not offer such “painless method” and instead the very opposite. The method of killing was done in such excruciating ways, which includes the method of constructed gas chambers, injection with a deadly dose of drugs, and starvation. This immediately resulted into at least 70,000 deaths between the years of 1939 to 1941.
Throughout the years of 1939 to 1941, the years in which the euthanasia program was without intended known publicly, both the Protestant and Catholic Churches in Germany opposed against the euthanasia program. According to historian and author Richard J. Evans, the protests then led to “the strongest, most explicit and most widespread movement against any policy since the beginning of Third Reich. (The Third Reich at War, Richard J. Evans, page 98). As Hitler feared a public uprising happening among Germany, he ordered a stop to the killings. However, not long afterwards, he found out a new way to proceed the euthanasia program. Hitler suggested that during wartime, “it was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill” as the attention would be brought onto the war and not the disabled people. This technique is considered as a censorship as Hitler believed that since there was a bigger event occurring, people would tend to pay more attention towards the war instead of the harm Hitler would do to the disabled. Hitler along with his party then reopened the secret program, now called the “T4 Program” in which eliminates disabled people by killing them in such violent and painful ways as mentioned before. The bodies of the victims were then burned in large ovens called crematoria. (The Holocaust, www.ushmm.org)
As Hitler himself mentioned, “Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death”. The publicity of the euthanasia program has led Germans into fear for those who are mentally and physically disabled as in a short amount of time they would die in such excruciating yet sudden ways.