History: Eugenics

Propaganda: communication intended to sway the audience towards a certain cause or position

Bandwagon Effect: people often do or believe what others do or believe

Hitler’s regime influenced people by playing on their beliefs on morality, financial security, and perfection (appearance)

Forced sterilizations preceded the genocide in Germany.

Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases- July 1933, sterilized people with supposed hereditary diseases, including mental illness, learning disability, physical deformities, deafness, blindness, epilepsy, and alcoholism.

T4: secret systematic killing of institutionalized disabled people

Dr. Ernst Wentzler: ordered killing of disabled infants

Eugenics Certificates became additional criteria to maintain one’s status in Germany

Over 60,000 people were sterilized in the U.S.

Sterilizations occurred in Georgia from 1937-1963

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