Useless Eaters: Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany

hotelsierra.blogspot.com ^ | March 27, 005 | Yanni.Znaio

[Yanni.Znaio]

I refer you to the following link:

http://www.regent.edu/admin/ctl/uselesseaters/

It contains a link a paper of the same name in .pdf format and a Shockwave presentation.

Useless Eaters:

Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany

Mark P. Mostert, Regent University

The methods used for mass extermination in the Nazi death camps originated and were perfected earlier use against people with physical, emotional and intellectual disabilities. This article describes the historical context of attitudes towards people with disabilities in Germany and how this context produced mass murder of people with disabilities prior to and during the early years of World War II. Several key marker variabiles, the manipulation os which allowed a highly sophisticated Western society to officially sanction the murder of people with disabilities, are examined. Important implications must continually be drawn from these sad events as we work with people with disabilties at the dawn of a new century.

[Yanni.Znaio]

This was so applicable to current events that it made my hair stand on end when I found it.

[LibFreeOrDie]

"This was so applicable to current events that it made my hair stand on end when I found it."

Especially this: "This process was facilitated by each panelist being aware of what previous panelists had decided. Decisions were made exclusively on the basis of the information on the registration form, thereby transforming life and death decisions by the state into a macabre administrative exercise."

Thanks for the link.

[Yanni.Znaio]

Thank you for your post.

The blog entry prior to this one was credited to FR poster T'wit who, by citing the Pinellas County animal cruelty statutes, showed that Judge Greer and Michael Schiavo were treating Terri in a manner that is in violation of the law.

I note that many have viewed but few have posted.

It's hard to put into words what I feel this represents.

Especially after viewing and reading the Regent University materials.

There are certain lines, when once crossed, are hard, if not impossible, to re-establish as boundaries.