How do you think the systematic mass-murder on an industrial scale started?
In 1939, some camps where already there, people already rounded up - but the 'efficient' mass-murder had not started yet.
In the spring of 1939, even before the start of #WW2, people from the highest circle started planning. Led by Philipp Bouhler (director of Hitler's private chancellery) and Karl Brandt (Hitler's attending physician).
They planned to murder all 'disabled' children (& later adults) - #AktionT4
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In 1939, some camps where already there, people already rounded up - but the 'efficient' mass-murder had not started yet.
In the spring of 1939, even before the start of #WW2, people from the highest circle started planning. Led by Philipp Bouhler (director of Hitler's private chancellery) and Karl Brandt (Hitler's attending physician).
They planned to murder all 'disabled' children (& later adults) - #AktionT4
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Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
"Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to one of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics"
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
"At first, medical professionals and clinic administrators included only infants and toddlers in the operation. As the scope of the measure widened, they included youths up to 17 years of age."
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
"In the autumn of 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a secret authorization in order to protect participating physicians, medical staff, and administrators from prosecution. This authorization was backdated to September 1, 1939, to suggest that the effort was related to wartime measures."
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Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
- #Brandenburg, on the Havel River near Berlin,
- #Grafeneck, in southwestern Germany,
- #Bernburg, in Saxony,
- #Sonnenstein, also in Saxony,
- #Hartheim, near Linz on the Danube in Austria,
- #Hadamar, in Hessen
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
The families or guardians of the victims received such an urn, along with a death certificate and other documentation, listing a fictive cause and date of death."
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
There was widespread public knowledge of the measure. "
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
"In light of the widespread public knowledge and the public and private protests, Hitler ordered a halt to the Euthanasia Program in late August 1941."
"Hitler's call for a halt to the T4 action did not mean an end to the "euthanasia" killing operation. Child "euthanasia" continued as before."
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
"Historians estimate that the Euthanasia Program, in all its phases, claimed the lives of 250,000 individuals."
Source: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/euthanasia-program
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#AktionT4
Euthanasia Program and Aktion T4
encyclopedia.ushmm.orgHenrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
"The methods and technologies employed in the T4 program to murder the handicapped would become a precursor to the atrocities committed in the death camps"
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#AktionT4
Henrik Schönemann •
Inhaltswarnung: mass-murder, 'euthanasia', Aktion T4
Given Hitler’s overarching concern for racial purity, it [was] a short step to extend the ideological justification for murdering the unfit to other categories of perceived biological enemies of the state: Jews and Roma and Sinti, homosexuals, criminals, alcoholics, and malcontents."
Source: https://digital.kenyon.edu/bulmash_euthanasia/
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