Nazi extermination plans extended even to sick Germans, not just non-Germanic peoples.

Evidence

A large part of these plans, based on the original documents, can be found in Léon Poliakov’s Bréviaire de la Haine, Paris, 1951, chapter 8 (American edition under the title Harvest of Hate, Syracuse, 1954; we quote from the original French edition), but only insofar as they referred to the extermination of non-Germanic peoples, above all those of Slavic origin. That the Nazi engine of destruction would not have stopped even before the German people is evident from a Reich health bill drafted by Hitler himself. Here he proposes to “isolate” from the rest of the population all families with cases of heart or lung ailments among them, their physical liquidation being of course the next step in this program. — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2555

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