The Nazis believed Germans were members of a “master race,” superior in mind and body to all other peoples. The Nazi state sought to foster this supposed “superiority” by preventing Germans from intermingling with “inferior” peoples, and encouraging the number of children born to “healthy” members of society while preventing the procreation of “inferior” types.
1. Romany (Gypsies)
2. Persons with Disabilities
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“The Nazi policy of euthanasia is the state deciding who was not a productive member of society, and the state killing them.”
3. African-Germans
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“The chief danger of people with African descent that the Nazis saw to German society ... was in race-mixing.”
