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What Are The Causes Of Discrimination During The Holocaust

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This cleaning up of our culture must extend to nearly all domains. Theater, art, literature, movies, the press, posters, and window displays must be cleaned of the symptoms of a rotting world and put into the service of a moral idea of state and culture.” -Adolf Hitler. This meant exterminating anyone or anything that didn’t fit his standards. Hitler wanted to “cleanse” Germany of imperfections. People that Hitler didn’t deem fit for benefitting Germany were disposed of. Many groups of people were targets of discrimination during the holocaust, including jews, homosexuals, the mentally handicapped and the list goes on. The treatments the mentally handicapped had to endure were often overlooked and ignored, almost more than the other victims

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