in concentration camps. Theories about the extermination of the ill were not the only appalling theories put into practice in the Third Reich. Those who were not considered pure blooded Aryan-Germans were also to suffer under Hitler’s reign of terror. Some of those groups included Jews, gypsies, poles and half breeds (eg.Half Jew-Half German). In other words those who were accepted were only those who were pure blooded Aryan-German. Theorist Arthur D. Gobineau believed that the value of a person was determined by their color. He believed that all high cultures where the work of Aryans. He believed that if Aryans interbred with races of lesser value, this would weaken the Aryan ruling class and the Aryan culture would be lost. Hitler shared this view as well. In 1935 the law for the protection of German blood and Honor was passed. This law forbid Jews to have sexual relations or marry those of “German blood”. This law did not only excluded Jews from marrying Germans, it also excluded Gypsies, Negroes and their bastards from marrying pure blooded Germans as well. As Burleigh and Wipperman explain, “gypsies, negroes, or their bastards’ were normally counted alongside Jews as carriers of non-German or related blood”(pg.50). One studying history of the Third Reich learns that the Jews were to suffer the most under the Third Reich, and were tortured and put to death in greater numbers than any other group excluded in the Third Reich. The Jews were perceived as the worst of all evils. Hitler was not the creator of anti-semitism. Jews were considered by others and also written about by theorists to be evil works of the devil. Theorist Houston Chamberlain believed that Jewish women were prostitutes and that Jews were the spreaders of syphilis and other diseases that were destroying the health of Germans and were attempting to prevent racial-hygienic improvement amongst Aryan-Gemans. He beli...
