Posted on 03/22/2005 3:30:05 PM PST by William of Orange
In Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler's T-4 "Euthanasia" Program was established in order to maintain the supposed purity (eugenics) of the so-called Aryan race by systematically killing children and adults born with physical deformities or suffering from mental illness. The name T-4 comes from the address of the office, Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin.
The operation was conducted still more covertly after August 1941, when 70,000 people had already died in the gas chambers of Grafeneck, Hartheim, Hadamar, Bernburg, Brandenburg and Sonnenstein. By that time every third inmate of a psychiatric institution in Germany had already died, either by being actively killed or by [b]starvation[/b], leading to about 93,000 "free beds" at the end of 1941, to use the Nazi terminology.
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I think it's appropriate to use the 'slippery slope' argument. We already see it here in Europe, first right after 1945 euthanasia was unthinkable, yet in 60 years we have slipped to a situation where in some cases, it is perfectly accepted and sometimes even encouraged!
I hope that the might of the right (and the right is right!) prevails in the USA and stops any attempts to start doing the same in the USA. To people who are approving of what's happening to Terri Schiavo, you should ask them: "what would Hitler do?".
This is a Nazi poster explaining the T4 euthanasia program, it reads: "This person suffering from hereditary defects costs the people 60,000 Reichmarks during his lifetime. People, that is your money. Read 'New People'."
Excellent book!..All this happened with the cooperation of the doctors, nurses, judges, courts, police, lawyers...
BTTT
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