Presented By: Bryson White and Sandy Marie English 1 7 th Mrs.Haugstad The Incurably Ill The Homosexuals The Gypsies The Polish Twins Bib

  Wartime, Adolf Hitler suggested, "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill."  About 200,000 handicapped people were murdered between 1940 and Harthem Castle, euthanasia killing center where people with physical and mental disabilities were killed by gassing and lethal injection.^ The Incurably Ill

  May 6, 1933 Nazis ransacked the “Institute for Sexual Science” in Berlin, Germany.  In 1934, a special Gestapo (Secret State Police) division on homosexuals was set up.  The number of prosecuted homosexuals increased sharply, peaking in the years ( ).  An estimated 1.2 men where homosexuals in Germany in The Homosexuals

  Among the groups the Nazi regime and its Axis partners singled out for persecution on so-called racial grounds were the Roma (Gypsies).  In May 1940, the SS and police deported approximately 2,500 Roma and Santi, primarily residents of Hamburg and Bremen, to Lublin District in the General government.  Only in late 1979 did the West German Federal Parliament identify the Nazi persecution of Roma as being racially motivated The Gypsies

  German police units shot thousands of Polish civilians and required all Polish males to work against their will.  The Nazis main goal was to destroy Polish culture by eliminating the Polish political, religious, and intellectual leadership.  This was done in part because of German contempt for Polish culture and in part to prevent resistance against the occupation. The Polish

  Twins as young as five years of age were usually murdered after the experiment was over and their bodies dissected.  After the twins had been taken from their parents, they were taken to the showers. Since they were "Mengele's children," they were treated differently than other prisoners.  Besides the obvious, suffering through medical experiments, the twins were often allowed to keep their hair and allowed to keep their own clothes.  They were then taken to the twin's barracks where they were required to fill out a form. The form asked for a brief history and basic measurements such as age and height. The Twins

 Bibliography *Bryson White*  Biedron, Robert. "Homosexuals - A Separate Category of Prisoner." Auschwitz - Birkenau Memorial Museum. Auschwitz- Birkenau Deat Camp Victims Memorial Foundation, Web. 09 Apr *Sandy Marie*  "Nazisms Pink Hell." Auschwitz-Birkenau. N.p., n.d. Web..  "To My Comrades- from Karl." Auschwitz-Birkenau. N.p., n.d. Web.

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