Persons With Disabilities

January 1, 1925

Things haven't changed much since 1900 for people with disabilities. If anything, a growing emphasis on "survival of the fittest" and eugenics has created an environment that is even more hostile to those with disabilities.

Eugenics is the belief that the human race can be improved with selective breeding. In other words, the "right" people,  rich and healthy are allowed to have children together and the "wrong" people, the poor, sick, or disabled, are not. In the 1930s, Nazism will push the idea of eugenics to its ultimate conclusion.