Anti+Semetism+and+the+final+solution

The racial policy of Nazi Germany asserted the superiority of the so-called "Aryan race," and was based on a specific racist doctrine which claimed scientific legitimacy. It was combined with a eugenics (the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics.) program that aimed to achieve "racial purity" of the "Aryan race" by using compulsory sterilizations and extermination of specific minorities, which eventually culminated in the Holocaust. These policies targeted, first of all, Jews, who were considered as the most inferior races of all on a hierarchy that included Jews at the bottom and the Herrenvolk (master race) of the Volksgemeinschaft (national community) at the top. They also targeted those humans they identified as "Lebensunwertes Leben” (life unworthy of life), including the criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, religious, and weak, for elimination from the chain of heredity. More than 400,000 people were sterilized against their will, while 70,000 were killed in the Action T4 (Euthanasia program in which physicians killed patients who were judged “incurably sick” by critical medical examinations from 1939 – 1941. Compulsory Sterilization Programs were government policies which attempted to force people to undergo surgical sterilization which were intended to prevent the reproduction and multiplication of members of members of the population considered to be carriers of defective genetic traits. The Nuremburg Laws were a series of laws passed in Germany in 1935 in which: all Jews were no longer citizens of their own country, Jews were not allowed to marry non-Jews, Jews were banned from all professional jobs, Jews were segregated from the “Aryan” population and punished financially for being Jewish, Jewish children were banned from going to public school. On The Night of Broken Glasses, the SS smashed and vandalized Jewish shops and offices, killed around 100 Jews and sent 20000 more to concentration camps. As punishment for the damages, the Jews were forced to pay 1 billion Reichmarks in damages and so 20% of every Jew’s property was confiscated.
 * The Racial Policy of Nazi Germany**

-Roy