The Furher and his master race plan started well before anybody really notice. The fact the German Government view disabled life as not worthy of living still haunts the disabled community to this day. We in 2001 are still fighting to have our civil rights like any other person. Some of these attitudes come straight from the Nazi German Reign.   They made disabled German citizens wear armbands with the German statement “ LIFE UNWORTY OF LIFE” Some individuals still feel this way, the deaf had to wear an armband with the words “DEAF-DUMB”. That term is still with us 60 years later. All disabled Germans like the German Jewish, Gay, and Gypsy populations were constant targets of Nazi roundups anytime, anywhere.

At the end of World War Two 100 million disabled would be dead or dying all over Eastern Europe. The real toll is unknown.   The Nazi German Hospitals were still killing disabled babies as the American and British troops entered their German cities. German Doctors were never accountable for their action during 1934-1945 unlike the German Nazi Government Leaders. German doctors never went to trial or even got reprimanded for their actions.  

In 1933 after the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany 250 thousand mentally disabled German citizens were rounded up and sent to Germanic Health Consortiums throughout the country. The Party stated it was just a workers health study group for the prosperity of the German people. Not telling them that this was a testing ground for mass murder.   In 1934 this program became known as the T-4 program and the very emergence of the disabled euthanasia testing grounds. The T-4 programs designated what camp or doctor you went too. The German Government wanted to see the different ways of killing great masses of people without them knowing they are going to be casualties.   In 1941 the T-4 program was decenterized and the German Government granted Doctors all over the country to use their discretion on what to do with disabled babies. They no longer had to report to the state and for this reason a few German Disabled survived this horrific saga in history.   1941 the German Catholic Church sent mild protest to Berlin saying that these disabled people are God’s children. Little or nothing was made of this objection and Berlin went on with the new Wild Euthanasia program. In 1939-1940 German Doctors had to report any births of disabled child to the German State. Doctors then had to council the parents on the eventual death of that baby. German doctors were given the powers to kill that newborn baby for the betterment of the German State.  Most adult disabled had to choose not to die or work at a labor came. Most of them went to the German Free Labor Camp. The German government exploited the deaf by putting them in work situations non-deaf workers hated or did not reach production goals in that industrial plant. Places were noise was a major problem the deaf could work without even noticing the problem.  

Deaf women were put in production lines that made new German Army uniforms. They were given five needles to work with. That was their allotment for their job. When the five needles broke they were sent to concentration camps and death. Not many of them survive that ordeal because needles always broke.   We are still dealing with the disabled and work throughout the world today. The former Soviet Government only let people with Cerebral Palsy and Muscular Dystrophy work in the Post Office they were not allowed to apply for any other job. In the United States the disabled have to fight to keep their benefits while working. Thus, the disabled in this age are still looked at as a less valued worker. This comes straight from the Nazi German way of thinking on disabled and the work force. So has the world really changed? Yes, physically we have changed with ramps, computers, attendants, para transit, to help the disabled but there are many more mental attitudinal problems this world still has to come to terms with.   Yes the disabled are part of the world today but there are subjects that still make a lot of people nervous. Just check out any movie with a disabled role in it and you will find that they are still on the outside looking in. Some doctors still don’t think disabled can make it on their on in their houses, true the disabled might need some assistance but they are doing fine in america with independent living.   Some parents still want to protect their disabled child from life, like any other parent but again. The disabled need to grow and learn by mistakes (good or bad).  

Last the disabled are not seen as sexual beauties so it seems to lack relationships. This is the last and final breakdown of the disabled stereotype that the old German regime laid at the disabled’s feet. Currently in Berkeley and throughout America, The disabled are living and loving like any other group