How were the disabled viewed and treated in the past?
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The treatment of disabled people over the last hundred years was often cruel and shocking.
They were often viewed as unhealthy and defective and abandoned by their families.
During World War II the Nazi Regime has a special program for the mass elimination of disabled people called Aktion T4.
But even in the United States in the 1950's the situation was pretty horrible. Thousands of people were admitted to institutions despite their will from their relatives.
They suffer from abuse and neglect ,deprivation of rights, forms of electroshock therapy, painful restraints,and experimental treatments and procedures.
The situation will be improved in the 1970's when organizations like the UN have adopted acts that protected the rights of disabled people like the UN Declaration on the Rights of Disabled People and others.
