A Brighter Side?

The whole euthanasia project in Germany was awful. No one has the right to chose who deserves to lives.When it had began, it included the killing of inferior non-Germans as well as Germans. The mass killing of thousands of people was done "for the greater good" but that was just a justification for killing people.

It can be debated that there was a bright side to this though. "The euthanasia of inferior German types was the only part of the sprawling race hygiene/eugenics programme to be halted..." (page 385). Even though the German's still killed lots of "inferior" people, they stopped from killing a few of the Germans who were thought of as inferior in the minds of others.

However, they only stopped killing those who were Nazi loyalists. It was a step in the right direction for the Germans. Less were being killed due to the belief that they were inferior and more people were safe from harm in Germany. I am not trying to justify the Holocaust, but there was a slight happy ending for some people during this time.

Signed,
Samantha Brown