Reflection: Mentally and Physically Disabled of the Holocaust
Following my research on the elimination of the mentally and physically disabled of the Holocaust, I was left with a mix of shock and sorrow. It’s obvious through society’s actions, even today, that disabled people are treated as outsiders, they always have been. While that came to me as no shock, the names they were called and propaganda Hitler implemented to exterminate them left me feeling as if I’ve been oblivious. The main tactic Hitler used was propaganda, brainwashing Germans to believe that those who were disabled have suffered enough and it would be wrong to allow them to live on in their suffering. If you were fed this information frequently and you were forced to
Following my research on the elimination of the mentally and physically disabled of the Holocaust, I was left with a mix of shock and sorrow. It’s obvious through society’s actions, even today, that disabled people are treated as outsiders, they always have been. While that came to me as no shock, the names they were called and propaganda Hitler implemented to exterminate them left me feeling as if I’ve been oblivious. The main tactic Hitler used was propaganda, brainwashing Germans to believe that those who were disabled have suffered enough and it would be wrong to allow them to live on in their suffering. If you were fed this information frequently and you were forced to