What policies were created by the Third Reich to carry out its experiment of producing a master race?
During the Holocaust, the Third Reich put many policies into effect that negatively affected the people considered inferior to the Aryan race. Many of these policies were based on ideas that began half a century before World War II. These ideas of human inequality came from German anthropologists, geneticists, and psychiatrists. Later, the Nazis used these ideas and developed their own political “policy of exclusion” (Mitchell & Mitchell, 2001, p. 195). From the exclusion policies came numerous actions that affected the so-called inferior races of Germany and surrounding areas. The Nazis’ actions included institutionalization, incarceration, sterilization, and, finally, murder. The overall policy put into effect by the Third Reich was the policy of exclusion. Under exclusion, numerous programs began which affected numerous groups. The first group excluded was the handicapped, which included people with physical deformities, mental illnesses, and learning disabilities. Criminals and peo
