Life unworthy of life

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Life unworthy of life

The intro already mentioned made by Nazis, so "Nazi" eugenic is redundant

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{{Distinguish|Wrongful life|Wrongful birth}}
{{Distinguish|Wrongful life|Wrongful birth}}
{{use dmy dates |date=December 2021}}
{{use dmy dates |date=December 2021}}
[[File:Neues Volk eugenics poster, c. 1937 (brightened).jpeg|thumb|200px|This poster (published in the [[Nazi Party Office of Racial Policy|NSDAP's Office of Racial Policy]]'s monthly magazine ''Neues Volk'' around 1938) urges support for [[Nazi eugenics]] to control the public expense of sustaining people with [[genetic disorder]]s. The poster says: "This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60,000 Reichsmarks to the [[Volksgemeinschaft|National Community]]. Fellow German, that is your money as well."]]
[[File:Neues Volk eugenics poster, c. 1937 (brightened).jpeg|thumb|200px|This poster (published in the [[Nazi Party Office of Racial Policy|NSDAP's Office of Racial Policy]]'s monthly magazine ''Neues Volk'' around 1938) urges support for [[Nazi eugenics|eugenics]] to control the public expense of sustaining people with [[genetic disorder]]s. The poster says: "This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60,000 Reichsmarks to the [[Volksgemeinschaft|National Community]]. Fellow German, that is your money as well."]]
{{The Holocaust sidebar}}
{{The Holocaust sidebar}}
The phrase "'''life unworthy of life'''" ({{langx|de|Lebensunwertes Leben}}) was a [[Nazi term|Nazi designation]] for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime, had no [[right to life|right to live]]. Those individuals were targeted to be murdered by the state via [[involuntary euthanasia]], usually through the compulsion or deception of their caretakers. The term included people with disabilities and later those considered grossly inferior according to the [[racial policy of Nazi Germany]]. This concept formed an important component of the [[ideology]] of [[Nazism]] and eventually helped lead to [[the Holocaust]]. It is similar to but more restrictive than the concept of ''[[Untermensch]]'', subhumans, as not all "subhumans" were considered unworthy of life ([[Slavs]], for instance, were deemed useful for [[slave labor]]).
The phrase "'''life unworthy of life'''" ({{langx|de|Lebensunwertes Leben}}) was a [[Nazi term|Nazi designation]] for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime, had no [[right to life|right to live]]. Those individuals were targeted to be murdered by the state via [[involuntary euthanasia]], usually through the compulsion or deception of their caretakers. The term included people with disabilities and later those considered grossly inferior according to the [[racial policy of Nazi Germany]]. This concept formed an important component of the [[ideology]] of [[Nazism]] and eventually helped lead to [[the Holocaust]]. It is similar to but more restrictive than the concept of ''[[Untermensch]]'', subhumans, as not all "subhumans" were considered unworthy of life ([[Slavs]], for instance, were deemed useful for [[slave labor]]).
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