You Are Sharing the Load! A Hereditarily Ill Person Costs 50,000 Reichsmarks on Average up to the Age of Sixty.
Posted on 09/13/2019 2:36:59 PM PDT by Morgana
It can’t be said too often that too often we know too little about history–and what we do know often is either wrong or incomplete.
Over the years we’ve posted many stories that buttress and support what remains to many, many people an unknown historical truth–the Nazis “refined” their murderous system with their notorious Aktion T-4 euthanasia program.
As Peter Saunders has so eloquently written, “The horrific genocide of six million Jews was in fact only the final chapter in the Nazi holocaust story.”
Beginning in 1939, 300,000 disabled people “were gassed or given a lethal injection and cremated in six killing facilities in Germany and Austria,” writes Michael Cook. “This helped the Nazi regime to refine its system for processing millions, rather than ‘just’ thousands, of victims.”
One of the best articles I ever read appeared in the New York Times under the headline, “The Nazis’ First Victims Were the Disabled,” by Kenny Fries. Fries is himself Jewish and disabled, wrote about the connection between Aktion T4, the Nazi “euthanasia” program, and the extermination of the disabled, explaining
I first discovered that people with disabilities were sterilized and killed by the Nazis when I was a teenager, watching the TV mini-series “Holocaust” in 1978. But it would be years before I understood the connections between the killing of the disabled and the killing of Jews and other “undesirables,” all of whom were, in one way or another, deemed “unfit.”
The [German] neurologist [to whom Fries is explaining his research] does not know much about what I’m telling him. While he does know that approximately 300,000 disabled people were killed in T4 and its aftermath, he doesn’t know about the direct connection between T4 and the Holocaust. He doesn’t know that it was at Brandenburg, the first T4 site, where methods of mass killing were tested, that the first victims of Nazi mass killings were the disabled, and that its personnel went on to establish and run the extermination camps at Treblinka, Belzec and Sobibor.
Saunders added
The detail of how it happened, and particularly the role of doctors in the process, is not at all well known.
What ended in the 1940s in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Treblinka had much more humble beginnings in the 1930s in nursing homes, geriatric hospitals and psychiatric institutions all over Germany.
When the Nazis arrived, the medical profession was ready and waiting.
Fries cites the hugely influential 1920 book, “Permitting the Destruction of Unworthy Life” by Alfred Hoche, a psychiatrist, and Karl Binding, a distinguished lawyer, “which became the blueprint for the exterminations of the disabled carried out by the Third Reich.” But he quite rightly hears ominous contemporary echoes.
A reading of Hoche and Binding, Fries remarks,
shows the similarity between what they said and what exponents of practical ethics, such as Peter Singer, say about the disabled today. As recently as 2015, Singer, talking with the radio host Aaron Klein on his show, said, “I don’t want my health insurance premiums to be higher so that infants who can experience zero quality of life can have expensive treatments.”
Fries ends with this inquiry with an admonition and warning:
What kind of society do we want to be? Those of us who live with disabilities are at the forefront of the larger discussion of what constitutes a valued life. What is a life worth living? Too often, the lives of those of us who live with disabilities are not valued, and feared.
At the root of this fear is misunderstanding, misrepresentation, and a lack of knowledge of disability history and, thus, disabled lives.
Thanks for posting! Anyone that has any knowledge of history knows that the Nazis exterminated any useless eaters. It’s the same today with modern day liberals.
Anyone, with a decent education already knows this - so therefore thank you for posting it.
Also, political leaders such as W.E.B. Dubois were quoted in the Project proposal criticizing Black people in the United States for having many children and for being less intelligent than their white counterparts:
... the mass of ignorant Negroes still breed carelessly and disastrously, so that the increase among Negroes, even more than the increase among Whites, is from that part of the population least intelligent and fit, and least able to rear their children properly.[97]
Even though The Negro Project received a lot of praise from white leaders and eugenicists of the time, it is important to note that Margaret Sanger wanted to clear concerns that this was not a project to terminate African Americans.[98] To add to the clarification, she received support from prominent African American leaders such as Mary McLeod Bethune and Adam Clayton Powell Jr.[97] These leaders and many more would later serve on the Negro National Advisory Council of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
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That was America.
Eugenics happened as well in almost every European nation, including my own with forced sterelizations (the silent genocide)....
Share it with your liberal friends who are so itching to abort a baby just because it has Trisomy 21. First it’s babies with an extra chromosome next it will be them.
You Are Sharing the Load! A Hereditarily Ill Person Costs 50,000 Reichsmarks on Average up to the Age of Sixty.
It’s a sad fact that the popularity of Eugenics at that time, was not limited to Nazi Germany.
Although fiction, this is a central topic in the Amazon series “The Man in the High Castle”.
Wow, thank you for this.
Why didn’t the world know this at the time?
yup, T4 was where it all began
Check out the brilliant Antonin Artaud who was almost liquidated by the Nazis until important people intervened. A theatre theorist (The Double Image/ The Theater of Cruelty), a film star (”The Passion of St. Joan” & “Napoleon”) he had serious physical health and mental issues that added up to “degeneracy” for the wretches of The Third Reich who occupied France.
disabled and the elderly... here in the US, a standing ovation for killing the new born.. and hearing some of the candidates, they are ready to kill for the sake of the planet...dirt...
IIRC it was happening prior to 1939.
Did the Nazis also dismember the handicapped and use their body parts for “research”?
i’m not sure but I think you insulted somebody. :)
No wait, I’m SURE of it :)
Actually I know you’re insulting the education system and deservedly so.
As for killing the disabled, I know that meant mentally disabled also, but I wonder how those in the gray zone were treated.
Some people after TBIs and strokes may or may not be permanently disabled.
I only wonder because of personal experience with the issue.
As I always say, the Nazi leaders should have killed themselves first if they wanted to purify the master race of undesirable people. Most of them were ugly, physically unimpressive, addicted to drugs and losers generally. Of course, they were also all psychopaths and insane.
I live in Norway now and everyone here is very liberal, and I am fighting for truth as much as I can.
Abortion almost seems to have become something of a sacrament of satan for the left.
I teach college kids, and I think abortion at the very least is the litmus test if you are at all a sensible human being ready to take part in society.
I am against it, but I understand how others could feel differently... But, not the way they fetisze it almost. Thinking aloud. It feels like they are over compensating and now it is evil and damaging, so fight for the opposite.
My little sister. A FReeper just had twins. Both born around week 30.
Life is prescious and people who do not understand that abortion is wrong are...Not quite right in the head, but they are also brainwashed.
And, someone brainwashed them...
Not sure if I should say this here, but I try to include an abortion discussion at the start of my classes of the year. To test how people think, but mostly... To expose a culture drained in abortion culture to pro-life arguments.
Not sure how it goes.
Hey, if I change one mind, I have done something good.
What is really sad.
Is that Eugenics, incredibly enough is coming back.
But, mentioning that might get you banned from here, so there is that.
God will judge us. Not some no mark freerepublic moderator.
Cheers,
Fred
The Nazis took pains to conceal it even from the German public.
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