As Hitler once said, “By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise”. Hitler strongly believed that propaganda had the ability to completely change society’s way of thinking about an idea and so he, along with the Nazis began a huge propaganda campaign against mentally and physically disabled Germans. As the disabled people did not fit into the Nazi stereotype of the pure Aryan society, they were then viewed as a burden on the society because Nazis …show more content…
According to theholocaustexplained.org, on July 1933, the Nazis passed the “Law for the Prevention Progeny with Hereditary Diseases” which regards the allowance of forced sterilization of 350,000 men and women who were believed to produce “inferior” children (Nazi treatment of the disabled, www.theholocaustexplained.org). With the law’s passage, the Nazis also stepped up its propaganda against the disabled by repeatedly calling them “unworthy of life” and “a burden to the society”. A few years passed by, and by the end of 1939, Hitler along with the Nazis created an euthanasia program, in which targeted for systematic killing the mentally and physically disabled people of Germany. In this euthanasia program, it required the help of many German doctors to review the medical files of patients in institutions and get the