Nazi health policy would have removed the sick from public life.

Evidence

Hitler contemplated during the war the introduction of a National Health Bill: “After national X-ray examination, the Fuehrer is to be given a list of sick persons, particularly those with lung and heart diseases. On the basis of the new Reich Health Law …these families will no longer be able to remain among the public and can no longer be allowed to produce children. What will happen to these families will be the subject of further orders of the Fuehrer.” It does not need much imagination to guess what these further orders would have been. The number of people no longer allowed “to remain among the public” would have formed a considerable portion of the German population (Nazi Conspiracy, VI, 175). — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2775

Categorization

• XREF: A textbook biopolitical mechanism — the medicalization of exclusion and the sovereign decision over who may live and reproduce. Directly feeds Foucauldian biopolitics readings.
• DEFINE: ‘To remain among the public’ as a revocable grant — shows how totalitarian rule makes mere existence contingent on state decree.