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The accompanying assertion about the question “while grievance regarding medical

issues can be addressed in a democratic society, no such avenue is available in a genocidal

totalitarian regime such as the Nazi Third Reich” is a harsh but accurate analysis according to

both the books. Medical science has now been at the utmost level as there is a solution to almost

every medical related problem in it. But back then, it wasn’t possible as it is today. The people

with any weakness or disability were considered a burden to the society and the person crippled

also seemed to be facing criticism and devastated as they had no respect and felt like having no

reason to live. The book The Disability Rights Movement highlights the people who were facing

such hardships regarding the disabilities.

The book further explains how the disabled people were made fun of and felt grievance

regarding their medical conditions. The book was written under such medical disabilities and

aids the emotional and physical support. It sheds light on the numerous organizations and acts

performed all around the globe to cope with the disability concerns of the people. It includes

Americans with disability act, the league of the physically handicapped and the march of Dimes.

The League of the Psychically Handicapped was revolutionary since this organization was the

first well known organization nationally that demanded rights and shed light to those with

disabilities.

This association spoke to incapacities all in all instead of explicit ones like genetic youth

disability. At first the genetic youth handicap association was focused on a certain type of

disability. This circumstance with inability was tended to by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president

of the United States of America. This provided a moral boost among the people with disability as

they witnessed a president with disabilities. This showed that nothing can hinder the way of

someone if he is determined, not even the disability. Roosevelt was not the only leader who had
to took part in enhancing the morale of the crippled individuals but the former president of US,

George Bush also played a vital role in providing aid to people with disability and helping

organizations for people with disabilities. Besides having spent his formative years with an

uncle, his mother's brother John, who used a wheelchair as a result of polio, 34President Bush

had three children with Disabilities. His daughter died of leukemia when she was three years old;

one of his sons had a colostomy after part of his colon was removed in 1986, while another son is

dyslexic.35 Parrino recalls Representative Coelho's comment: "George Bush does not get enough

credit for the ADA. If he hadn't wanted it, we wouldn't have had it. He made it very clear that he

wanted that bill on his desk at some point in time, and he wanted to sign it."36 Like President

Bush, Representative Coelho (who has epilepsy), Senators Weicker (R-Conn.) and Harkin,

and Representative Hoyer (who have family members with disabilities), are instances of political

figures with personal information on incapacity who assumed a functioning part in the section of

the ADA" (92 Fleischer). This shows that more than one president and authority experienced an

incapacity and needed to reveal more insight into the theme.

Further in this debate is the German Adolf Hitler, who was focused on externing every

Jew with disabilities instead of increasing their morale and providing them ways to endure in

their life. Besides such complaints were tended to through the start of public associations to bring

issues to light, for example, March of Dimes which is an association for individuals with a wide

range of disabilities. In addition, disability associations have become more adaptable, since the

Americans with Disability Act serves society in general. Also, the accompanying statement

"Because the general public accepted rehabilitation and inclusion into the main- stream for

disabled veterans of the two world wars more readily than for civilians with disabilities, disabled

veterans were the first to make progress in social integration" (170- Fleischer)This shows that
society promptly acknowledged veterans as opposed to the overall population with disability.

Anyway, public associations helped to join individuals with disabilities as one. This is so since

any individual can build up an inability during their life. In a society, where everything is

concerned with freedom such as freedom of speech, freedom to choose the state’s president.

There should also be the human rights commission which would follow the path of delivering

sources for the rights of its citizen.

Nonetheless, no such road is accessible in a regime of genocidal totalitarian system, for

example, the Nazi Third Reich. This is so in light of the fact that a dictator has taken control

named as Adolf Hitler. Adolf Hitler needed to dispose of anybody that was not part of the

"unadulterated race." He saw anybody that isn't German as a malignant growth. The casualties of

the Nazi annihilation were principally any individual who was not part of the Aryan race, the

Jews, had a handicap, as well as a feature of a blend race would be considered a waste and killed.

In a majority rule society such complaints can be tended to through laws and public associations

anyway Adolf Hitler had something different as a primary concern. The jail doctors under the

Nazi Doctors, who are under Adolf Hitler, truly tested these casualties without the casualty's

consent. This came about in one or the other injury, passing, or an inability. Also, the Nazi's

caused such incapacities by abuse of medication and tests wherein they sent the Jews to gas

chambers clearing out thousands immediately. "In Auschwitz, Nazi specialists directed the

homicide of a large portion of the 1,000,000 casualties of that camp. Specialists performed

choices — both on the incline among showing up transports of detainees and later in the camps

and on the clinical squares. Specialists requested and administered, and on occasion did, direct

murdering of incapacitated patients on the clinical squares using the phenol injections into the

circulation system or the heart. Regarding these killings, specialists kept up a misrepresentation
of clinical authenticity: for passing’s of Auschwitz detainees and of untouchables brought there

to be slaughtered, they marked bogus demise declarations posting false diseases." (23 Lifton).

This shows that Jews and individuals with disability had no chance to get out and were

powerfully executed to sustain the unadulterated race. As should be obvious in a popularity-

based society complaint can be tended to anyway under the Nazi standard individuals with

incapacities and the Jews had no state and were shockingly killed.

References:

1. Robert Jay Lifton. The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. New

York: Basic, 1986. [15-november-2020]

2. Fleischer, Doris Zames., and Frieda Zames. The Disability Rights Movement: From Charity to

Confrontation. Philadelphia: Temple U, 2011. [15-november-2020]

3. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/naziregime.html

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