1. Discrimination of the Physically and Mentally Handicapped During the Holocaust Presentation by Mona, Josh, Trina, PJ and Kelsey “Euthanasia Program-Photograph.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. “Euthanasia Program-Photograph.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. “Nazi flag.” We Shall Fight Them on the Beaches..

2. Policies on Sterilization and Marriage From a film produced by the Reich Propaganda Ministry. “A moral and religious conception of life demands the prevention of hereditary offspring.” “Euthanasia Program- Photograph.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. Sterilization law came into affect in January 1934 resulting in the forced sterilization of over 300 000 people Marriage Law of 1935: Proof required that offspring would not inherit disease in order for a marriage license to be issued

3. The T4 Program Smoke rising from the crematorium in the euthanasia centre in Hadamar, Germany, 1941 “Euthanasia Program- Photograph.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. Secret program run by the Nazis to kill off all people considered handicapped Originally killed by lethal injections then by carbon monoxide

4. “End” of the T4 Program Hartheim Castle in Hartheim, Austria. Euthanasia centre in annexed territory. “Euthanasia Program- Photograph.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. T4 Program “ended” in 1941 but really just continued in a less centralized form Particularly important in annexed countries where the killings of people labeled as handicapped continued

5. Aspects of Eugenics “Because God cannot want the sick and ailing to reproduce.” Propaganda released by the Reich Propaganda Ministry to gain suppourt for the Euthanasia program. “Euthanasia Program- Photograph.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. 1)Focus on strengthening the gene pool by sterilizing those with hereditary disease 2) Control marriage in order to control breeding 3) Quest for a superior human race

6. Aspects of Social Darwinism “Mentally ill Negro (English) 16 years in an institution costing 35,000 RM.” From a film strip created to be shown to the Hitler Youth. “Euthanasia Program- Photograph.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.. Handicapped seen as a burden to their society Believed that they contributed little to the community but brought on many costs

7. In all, between 200,000 and 250, 000 mentally and physically handicapped people were killed through these programs.

8. Cemetery by Hadamar where many victims of Euthanasia killings were buried. Hadamar, Germany, April 1945. “Euthanasia Program- Photograph.” Unites States Holocaust Memorial Museum..