People with disabilities

• The Nazis saw people with disabilities as a burden on society who weakened the purity of the race.
• In 1933, the Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, led to the compulsory sterilisation of 400,000 people who were mentally ill, alcoholic, epileptic, deaf or blind.
• In 1939, the Nazis ordered a secret programme, known as the T4 programme, to euthanise (murder) children with physical or mental disabilities that led to over 5000 deaths.