Cultural Differences Between Nazis And Jews

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law and were forcefully deported to segregated and secure camps for labor, followed by gassing. In total about 16,000 Gypsies died as a result of the Nazis scientific pursuit. Children underwent live experimentation in studies exploring racial immunology, malnutrition, desalination methods, live vaccinations, the effects of nerve gas, and much more. Nazi researches even went as far as studying the effects of inheritance of typhus by infecting pregnant mothers. As a result every mother died after giving birth to a short-lived newborn baby; their placentas did not act as a barrier against the infection as the Nazis had hypothesized. Child Gypsy twins were a rarity and seen as extremely valuable to Hitler's scientists. Researchers hawked camps and exploited all children born as multiples. Dr. Josef Mengele was leading researcher in the study of multiples. At the Gypsy Family …show more content…

Children who suffer from separation are sometimes deprived of their families permanently or for a period of time. All groups of children focused on in this paper experienced forceful separation under the regime, or had parents that were forcefully removed from their lives. For example, children of Reich and Jewish blood experienced the removal of their Jewish parent. It has been reported that marriages between Jewish and Reich people ended in divorce. It has been documented that Reich mothers left their Jewish husbands in order to keep their children alive. When authorities questioned the Jewish appearance of their children, they would declare that they were unsure about who their father is. In 1943 the Archbishop of Toulouse, Monsignor Saliege, condemned the disheartening disruption of families. He described it as the following, “Children, women and men, fathers and mothers are treated like wild beasts. Members of one family are separated from each other and taken away to an unknown destination” (Sosnowski

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