Eugenics In Nazi Germany

Did you know, that in Germany, boys and girls were taught separately when they were young? Young boys and young girls were taught different things and different ways. They even went to different schools. The youth in Nazi Germany were only taught things that would help the Nazi’s in the future. Most of the time, they were left in the dark about a lot of things. They were raised, learning about Nazi ideas and eugenics. Little did they know, they would be apart of a huge event that changed the world forever and gave a new meaning to the name “Holocaust”. Young boys were taught specific skills and subjects that would help the Nazi’s excel. The Nazi party wanted to use young boys as future soldiers. So, as a result, boys were strictly taught …show more content…
A major act of science came into play, and this act was eugenics. The history behind eugenics goes all the way back to the Victorian Era. in 1863, Sir Francis Galton, who was the cousin of Charles Darwin, came up with a theory where talented people would only reproduce with other talented people to make a better offspring. The race that Hitler considered superior and tried everything to achieve was the Aryan race, which was a white; blonde-haired; blue-eyed; Nordic race, that formed in America. California was considered the starting point for the American eugenics movement. Hitler had victimised an entire continent and killed millions just so he could find and develop the “Master Race”. While looking for the Aryan race, he decided to get rid of anyone who didn’t seem fit in Germany, along the way. This included, emancipated negroes, immigrant asian laborers, indians, hispanics, jews, dark-haired hill folk, poor people, the mental or physical disability, and almost anyone who did not fit in with the genetic lines drawn up by American raceologists. The Nazi’s would locate and track down so-called “defective” bloodlines and make them vulnerable to lifelong segregation and sterilization programs to kill their bloodlines. On July 14, 1933, Nazi dictatorship fulfilled the long-held hopes and dreams of achieving the “superior race” by enacting the Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring. The law was …show more content…
The word “Holocaust” comes from the the Greek words “Holos” (whole) and “Kaustos” (burned). The word was used to describe a sacrificial offering when burned on an altar. However, since 1945, Holocaust has adopted a completely new meaning, which was the mass killing of about 6 million European Jews as well as members of other targeted groups like, Gypsies and Homosexuals. Mass transports to concentration campsstarted in late 1941, they moved people who seemed the least useful, such as the sick, weak, old, and the very young. They started with ghettos in Poland. On March 17, 1942, the first gassings began at the camp of Belzec, near Lublin. After that, 5 more mass killing centers were built at camps occupying Poland. These camps included Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, and the largest above all, Auschwitz-Birkenau. From 1942 to 1945, Jews from all over Europe were being deported. This included, German-controlled territory and countries allied with Germany. During the summer and fall of 1942, the biggest deportations took place, they were so massive that 300,000 people were deported from the Warsaw ghetto alone. Th Nazi’s tried to stay low about camp operations but the mass killings made their secrets nearly impossible to keep. In the camps, only Jews were gassed, but thousands of people died of starvation and disease. A book