In Hitler's Germany, in order to hit them, was activated a program called Aktion T4 (T4 is the abbreviation for "Tiergartenstrasse 4", the address of the district of Berlin where he was located the headquarters of the program.)
If the Jews were considered enemies, "assets" of the German people, the physically and mentally disabled were classified as enemies of "passive" means a burden to the people and for the State, who spent money to keep alive "people whose life was not worth living, "according to the sombre term coined in a publication of the 1920 by the jurist Karl Binding and psychiatrist Alfred Hoche.
the theoretical basis of Aktion T4, there was the theory of eugenics, which developed at the turn of the '800 and '900. It conceived of each nation as a community improvement of which depended on the extinction of germ cells (ie, belonging to the gene pool) "degenerate." The Nazi
via the application of the theory of eugenics was the removal or sterilization of sick people.
The law for the "prevention of offspring suffering from hereditary diseases" of July 14, 1933 introduced compulsory sterilization for those with diseases considered hereditary, such as epilepsy, schizophrenia, psychosis, the oligophrenia, and physical infirmities such as blindness or congenital deaf-mutism. The list was also provided for chronic alcoholism. It is estimated that this rule has led to the sterilization of 300,000 to 400,000 people, about 0.5 percent of the German population at the time.
On 18 October 1935, one month after the promulgation of the Nuremberg racial laws, went into effect the "law on the health of marriage," which forbade the union if one of the boyfriends she suffered from a disease among those covered in the law for the sterilization . Since then the couple had to submit a certificate of marriage to obtain the necessary license. But approaching
the war, started a real domestic policy of extermination. On the initiative of Hitler himself, who in October 1939 granted permission to proceed to the elimination of those patients deemed "critical", with the motivation to free hospital beds to be allocated to the soldiers from the front. In fact, the Reich destined
meager resources and to hospice care and care of people with disabilities: the base of the murders perpetrated by Aktion T4, improperly called "euthanasia" (the Nazis for propaganda purposes, they spoke of "mercy killing") , there was the desire to shorten the lives of people suffering, but to achieve a purpose consistent with Nazi ideology. Individuals suffering from physical and mental disabilities are indeed a threat to the imagined perfection of the so-called Aryan race.
Initially, the project focused on the elimination of T4 disabled children: doctors, midwives and hospitals report them to the public health service, transmitting the complaint form to the Reich Committee, whose physicians selected the children for the program elimination, was going through barbiturates.
then passed to the removal of adults, according to a similar procedure: the Ministry of Interior of the Reich forced the institutions that housed people with disabilities to report patients with appositive questionnaires. The selection of who should be happening then eliminated through the evaluation of cards, made by about forty psychiatrists serving the program: a very small staff, which led to summary decisions, taken in haste and very arbitrary. To kill the adults, we used the gas chambers, working them in institutions that were subsequently used for the "final solution" against the Jews. It can be said that the method of extermination by the Nazis of people with disabilities and technical methods anticipated the elimination of the Jews.
the families of the victims was sent to careful documentation, falsified and misleading, testifying the circumstances of the death of their relatives: the German government knew dell'impopolarità of the project and throughout the period of its implementation tried to mystify and gloss over what in effect was a mass murder of German citizens.
It is estimated that up to August 1941 - when Hitler was forced to order the murderous campaign of disruption due to the aversion of public opinion and the Church - about eighty thousand people were killed. T4
But the project did not stop. Hitler always believed in its principles: Aktion T4 kept in a secret underground until 1945, causing the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
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