Eugenetica e genocidio. La Germania nazionalsocialista.

Eugenics and genocide are policies whose historical roots are different but which in Nazi Germany, at the outset of the Second World War, combined dramatically, resulting in the murder, first, of handicapped German patients, afterwards of millions of people deemed of “inferior” racial stock, foremostly Jews and Gypsies. Historians of so-called operation “euthanasia” underline the similarities between the two moments of a common policy of exclusion and extermination: the racist ideology of “aryan” supremacy, the killing method (gas chambers), the role of doctors, scientists and other health care workers in the killing process.