Nazi policy to 'undesirables'

Asocials

• There behavior was seen to go against what was expected from the Nazis. 
• Homeless people and beggars were rounded up due to the threat that they posed to public order.
• Disorderly people were becoming sterilized. In 1936, 10 people were sent for experimentation which was accepted by the people of Germany. This was a sign that people were possibly going to accept the Holocaust as a way of removing those who were socially inadequate.
• Only the end of the Nazi regime in 1945 ended possible compulsory sterilization and forced labour.   

Gypsies

• Gypsies in the Third Reich were treated harder than asocial. Their look and constant unemployment saw them being focused upon by the Nazis in policies and repression. 
• By the Propaganda Ministry, gypsies were branded as thieves and beggars. They were also involved in the Nuremberg Laws of 1935,where they were researched by racial experts. 
• December 1938 saw further repression of the group, with Himmler passing the 'decree for the struggle against the Gypsy Plague'. This saw them stop mixing with Aryan people and different coloured papers depending on their race. 
• Himmler admired the pure gypsies, and wanted them to live a traditional life to see it as a 'museum'. Hitler and Bormann overused this and sent them to Auschwitz by 1942. Only 5 thousand of 30 thousand survived the war. 

Mentally and Physically Handicapped

• Eugenics became more and more important in German society due to declining BR and economic depression.
• The economic depression led to a change in thought to feeding useless mouths, leading to other views that the German race was deteriorating.
• 1929 saw importance in sterilization with it going through draft legislation. Then, in 1932 Prussia set out voluntary sterilization for their disabled population with a year later a Sterilization Law, which was made not voluntary due to pressures NOT from Hitler.
• Between 1934-45, 320,000 to 350,000 were sterilizer within Germany.   

Lebansraum

• They worked with Eugenics to find racial credentials. This lead to the SS taking Children and Families to labour camps as they weren't part of the Aryan Race. 

Euthanasia ( Op T4) 

• This policy was against those who were not curable. 
• 1939 saw the Law granted, but occurred before the passage as parents wrote to the Nazis to kill their son as part of 'mercy'. Hitler and the Chancellery of the Fuhrer agreed to his death, and that's when it all started. 
• Deaths would be reported by midwives in cases of:

• Idiocy and Mongolism (Bind/Death)
• Having a small skull. 
• A large skull due to fluid inside
• Paralysis  
• Deformities of any kind

•  5000 died of injections/malnutrition, which was reported by nurses as 'measles'. This was later expanded to adults who were gassed without choice as asked by Hitler himself.
• August 1941 saw the Catholic church grow with unease. Hitler went out and stated it was not occurring, to which it happened in secret. Between 41-43, 72,000 died with 50,000 being from gas.