Nazi eugenics

Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Germany during the Nazi era from 1933 until his suicide in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor of Germany in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer und Reichskanzler in 1934. Germany's invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 under his leadership marked the outbreak of the Second World War. Throughout the ensuing conflict, Hitler was closely involved in the direction of German military operations and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, the genocide of about six million Jews and millions of other victims.

antisemitic laws in Nazi Germany

Austrian pediatrician, medical theorist, and medical professor (1906-1980)

Nazi Germany's programme of euthanasia which claimed 275,000–300,000 victims

Lebensborn e.V. IPA : [ˈleɪbənzˌbɔːrn], German : [ˈleːbənsˌbɔʁn] (literally: "Fount of Life") was a secret, SS-initiated, state-registered association in Nazi Germany with the stated goal of increasing the number of children born who met the Nazi standards of "racially pure" and "healthy" Aryans, based on Nazi eugenics (also called "racial hygiene" by some eugenicists). Lebensborn was established by Heinrich Himmler, and provided welfare to its mostly unmarried mothers, encouraged anonymous births by unmarried women at their maternity homes, and mediated adoption of children by likewise "racia

thumb|upright=0.95|Cover of the Nazi propaganda brochure "Der Untermensch" ("The Subhuman"), 1942. The SS booklet depicted the natives of Eastern Europe as "subhumans". Untermensch (; plural: Untermenschen) is a German language word literally meaning 'underman', 'sub-man', or 'subhuman', which was extensively used by Germany's Nazi Party to refer to their opponents and non-Aryan people they deemed as inferior. It was mainly used against "the masses from the East", that is Jews, Roma, and Slavs (mainly ethnic Poles, Belarusians, Ukrainians, Russians and Serbs).

first of 12 U.S. war crimes trials in Nuremberg

Nazi Germany's racially based social policies that focused on the improvement of the Aryan race or Germanic people

German physician (1874-1967)

German Waffen-SS General and Police Leader (1900-1945)

Eugenic concept for the murder of humans declared "unworthy"

German general (1891-1974)

set of policies and laws implemented by Nazi Germany

family

campaign of the Third Reich to murder Nazi concentration camp prisoners

building in Gomadingen, Tübingen Government Region, Bade-Württemberg, Germany

law in Nazi Germany

Nazi killing facility at Sonnenstein Castle

Austrian physician and entomologist (1914-1998)

organized murder of mentally or physically handicapped children in Nazi Germany

German child who was Action T4 victim

German eugenicist (1894–1981)

nazi-era German institute promoting racism

concentration camp in Moringen, Germany

1937 film by Herbert Gerdes

Legal proceedings of perpetrators in the euthanasia killings in the Nazi era in Germany

court that decided whether people should be forcibly sterilized in Nazi Germany