Why did the Nazis kill old people?

Answer 1

Hitler hated senior citizens because he thought they were useless.Hitler basically thought that children and seniors were useless. They were unfit for any term of manual labor, so he had them killed. Children and seniors were gassed, and any child under 3 was thrown in the air and shot. Hitler was a truly evil man. He deserved to die.

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Do not listen to that, it is just bigoted tripe.

I can think of no Policy that Hitler introduced that had anything against the elderly. The euthanasia programme was not aimed at the elderly, it was aimed at those of a feeble mind, the mentally ill, those who had an illness that meant that they would need a carer, who were a drain on society. True this may have included some of the elderly, but they were not targeted because they were old.

He certainly did not think that children were useless, he gave mothers medals for bearing many children.

What the unfortunate above is referring to is no doubt his fantasy about what happened at the death camps. Hitler neither knew nor cared about the details.

Answer 2

Adolf Hitler hated so many people because he believed that "Aryans" were the people who should have been the only people to live on Earth because that was what he considered "the master race". Anyone that was not equal to a "Aryan" should not be called a human in his perspective.

--Aryan- a person from a Germanic or Christanic descendant or ancestry with pure German blood in his/her body. The features would be a white blue eyed blond that is fairly tall.

Answer 3

The simple answer is that the Nazi euthanasia program targeted incurables, not old people as such.

Answer 4

no he (stupidly) hated jewish people...but if the old people were jewish than yes

Answer 5

They were of no use in his society.