Gypsies
Many do not realize that the Holocaust killed 500,000 Gypsies'. They went through the same hardships Jews did, with discriminations spreading through Western Europe. Gypsies were considered by the Nazi's as "asocial". They were seen as racially alien people who lowered the "Aryan Race". The Gypsies were viewed by the Nazi's with racial stereotypes of dark-skinned thieves, pickpockets, swindlers, beggars, and fortunetellers, incarcerating them as criminals. They were separated from the German community even at the beginning of the twentieth century, where certain restrictions were placed if they could not prove local residency and occupation. The main focus during this time was to set up regulations, which kept the Gypsies' behavior under control. Nazis believed associating behavior with race, criminality with Gypsies. They mainly suffered the persecution of police. In 1936, Heinrich Hammer, the leader of the German police in the Reich Ministry of Interior, gave orders to the police that the freedom of Gypsies should be restricted. New laws were ordered restricting Gypsy's travel and trade, also incarcerating them. Multiple studies and research done by Robert Ritter on Gypsies were performed in to classify them, and k
If they were not certain, they would write observational. The parents of the children were told that their children were going to be taken to help them get better, and if the parents of the child did not want them to take their child away, they would question their validity as parents. They would talk about maybe placing them in other homes, with other guardians. In these facilities, the children were given regular medicine, but in an overdose matter that would cause the children to develop pneumonia, and die from it. Then the records showed that the child died of natural causes. Also, they were used for chemical experimental testing. The SS, Gestapo, and the police provided most of the medicine needed. In the beginning of this program the ages, which these experiments were going on, were from 1-3 years of age. Then it progressed to 1-5 and more, until it reached the teens. Due to the fact that a great number of records were lost, it was said that 5,200 children were killed through this program, but it is more likely, there were a higher number of them killed. Hitler in order to justify euthanasia gave it a Darwinist Twist. "Since human life was a struggle for the survival of the fittest, then 'performance' had to be an essential requirement for all its citizens." eep the racial stereotypes, as well as to identify them among the German people. Even though Ritter's study of Gypsies had no scientific truth it was an important investigation that classified most of the German and many of the Austrian Gypsies from pure to non-gypsy. The 'Euthanasia' Program for Adults
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