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The Exile Of „The Undesired” Or Cleansing Of The Nation
The Exile Of „The Undesired” Or Cleansing Of The Nation

Author(s): Branka Ljiljak
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Fakultet za poslovne studije i pravo
Keywords: Homosexuality; eugenics; concentration camp; nature

Summary/Abstract: Do we ever wonder – how similar we are and what makes us different? Are the matters that make us different the reason why we shouldn’t have a right to life? When somebody’s child doesn’t have blue eyes does that mean that he/she shouldn’t live and enjoy childhood? The rise of Nazism in the 1930’s and during the Second World War, supported by the eugenics and anthropological-social theories about the creation of a better society resulted in mass exile and elimination of homosexuals as inferior beings. The concentration camps were the place where not only science but the policy of Nazi Germany was at play. Methodologically speaking, this paper will analyze historical facts through two sections, one within the other, and try to present opinions in favor and against eugenics, that is, elimination of homosexuals as un “undesired species”.

  • Issue Year: 4/2014
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 97-105
  • Page Count: 9