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The Human Rights Violations Of The Mistreated During The Holocaust

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These were mentally and physically disabled Germans during the Holocaust. Hitler took power over the Jews and Hitler did not value these people as strong and powerful. Hitler looked down on these people because they were seen as not as capable of people without disabilities. Therefore, meaning that they did not look like everyone else. The Holocaust was from January 30, 1933 - May 1945. Physicians started to use forced sterilization (meaning it would put a stop to new births if they parents had a disability. Did not want the chance of a family having a disabled child because they were “not worthy”.) Therefore ended up being a mass murder of the disabled. The killings were being held at concentration camps where disabled Jews were being mistreated. During the Holocaust, these people had little to no chance of surviving. Many were separated from families and loved ones and more than half of these people did not return home due to murder. The human rights violations of the disabled during the Holocaust are significant because they show the divide in society that can be created when a government does not value equal opportunity and shows how people with mental illness were treated cruelly and unusually.
The hatred towards disabled people was crucial and the German society believed they were not equal to others without disabilities. This occurs when the government is oblivious to the group of disabled Jews and do not take action. The causes of discrimination of the disabled

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