In addition to Jews, a specific group that the Nazis systematically killed during the holocaust were people with disabilities. People with disabilities were heavily discriminated upon, and Adolf Hitler even said, "Wartime was the best time for elimination of the incurably ill." These disabled people were viewed as impure, and were killed by ways such as gassing and lethal injection. This tragedy lead to the death of about 200, 000 handicapped people between the years of 1940 and 1945.