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Christian Democrats wrote:

This reminds me of a sarcastic post that I recently saw in a comments section somewhere. It went something like this: "The Nazis weren't barbarians; they were just too far ahead of their time."

They weren't even "ahead of their time." Their problem was that they were different. The mainstream of thought was based on class distinctions (although in America that was also tied to race, specifically that of African Americans who were kept in poverty by the growth of the original political party that had supported slavery). The easiest solution and generally considered the most humane was the elimination of the future problem through sterilization, and birth control. In the United States, Margaret Sanger led this movement.

Here is Sanger on sterilization in 1922, "STERILIZATION of the insane and feebleminded and the encouragement of this operation upon those afflicted with inherited or transmissible diseases, with the understanding that sterilization does not deprive the individual of his or her sex expression, but merely renders him incapable of producing children."

And Gas Chambers were proposed by George Bernard Shaw back in 1910, "We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment … A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."

So there was really nothing that the Germans did that they didn't want to do themselves, only to a different class of people based on their pseudo-science as opposed to the Germans.