1. Gypsies
Among others, they were sterilized as `unworthy of human reproduction', only to be ultimately annihilated as not worthy of living. ... When the Nazis got hold of euthanasia, they turned the meaning into the "destruction of worthless life." ... The idea of the "destruction of worthless life" did not first come from Hitler and his Nazi party; it came from a man named Professor Karl Binding. ... In his book, he writes about 'living burdens" that translates into German as Ballastexistenzen. ... "Since human life was a struggle for the survival of the fittest, then 'performance'...
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- Grade Level: High School