Meaning of useless eater | Babel Free

Definitions

In the ideology of Nazi Germany, a person with a serious medical problem or disability, seen as requiring assistance from society but offering nothing in return.

Nazism

Examples

“Gerhard Kretschmar seemed perfectly to fit Hitler's idea of a “useless eater,” and when the KdF men informed him of the case, he leapt into action, summoning his personal physician, Karl Brandt, and ordering him to travel immediately to Leipzig to investigate.”

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