Theories of eugenics or "racial hygiene" were widely accepted throughout the world in the early twentieth century, and they were popular with German scientists and medical professionals when the Nazis rose to power in 1933. Ideas of “racial hygiene” inspired Nazi racial ideology and many of the regime’s policies, including forcible sterilizations and the systematic murder of people with disabilities.
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Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RulePhotograph of Theresia Winterstein and Gabriel Reinhardt
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Medical Care, Nazism, and the Holocaust
Everyday Life: Roles, Motives, and Choices During the HolocaustRequest to Replace Nurse Anna Hölzer
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSelf-Portrait by Franz Karl Bühler
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSign Language Testimony of Helga Gross
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Targets of Eugenics
Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi RuleSterilization Order for August Alzen