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please help..I don't understand

2007-02-10 21:58:19 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities History

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I can only assume that your question refers more to policy other than that of the Holocaust.
Most of the credit for the "race purification policies" were only vague ideas of Hitler without shape or form. It was Himmler who really pursued these ideas and made them into policy and then law. It began slowly and with limits then expanded greatly in depth and effect. At first it was simply when a couple would apply for a marriage license their heritage would be reviewed and if found to be in order then a license would be granted. The in 1933 it became illegal for a Jew to marry a German. This progressed to include other races, Black, Asian, Slavs, etc. "Aryans" Germans who married Germans of good blood lines would draw benefits from the state such as additional pay, kindergarten spaces, reduced medical expenses etc. This again expanded to include medical background checks for hereditary disease and mental illness. Germans "Aryans" with really good bloodlines were allowed to have children outside of marriage. A good Aryan was allowed to have a wife plus several Aryan consorts for the purpose of bearing children. Euthanasia Program was introduced where mentally handicaped were "Euthanized". This was rapidly expanded to inculded the elderly, various other illnesses, and certain criminals. Persons of a questionable heredity were sterilized. Prior to the war Himmler worked at a chicken farm were his knowledge of breeding chickens was put to another use. A German documantry was even made at this time to show the benifits of Euthanasia, about "being the humane to end the suffering of people would will only die anyway."
Naturally after the war these policies were ended and condemned.

2007-02-10 23:00:20 · answer #1 · answered by DeSaxe 6 · 1 0

You mean aside from the slaughter of millions of Jews, Gypsies, Slaves, the developmentally disabled, and homosexuals?

There were also work restrictions were Germans were favored for job.

2007-02-10 22:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by the_mad_yovo 2 · 0 0

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