Posted on 09/13/2019 2:36:59 PM PDT by Morgana
It cant be said too often that too often we know too little about historyand what we do know often is either wrong or incomplete.
Over the years weve posted many stories that buttress and support what remains to many, many people an unknown historical truththe 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 Im telling him. While he does know that approximately 300,000 disabled people were killed in T4 and its aftermath, he doesnt know about the direct connection between T4 and the Holocaust. He doesnt 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 dont 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.
Now, I think I know the why.
Then most likely you do.
You are not supposed to understand why.
Scary, isnt it.
What they really, really dont want is for you to know who did it. Once one puts the why and the who together, well...
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Sadly that was a long time ago...
Now, abortion laws are always getting bad too.
The who is a bit complicated as well...
But, it is a bit funny how right this moment the three strongest allies in the middle east are Israel, Saudi Arabia and the Unites States.
IT is very odd.
The main point is that in a free society...
With free flow of information...
These things should get sorted out quickly...
What makes you think you live in a free society?
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We don’t.
Even here at Free Republic a post based on Israeli newspapers about possible for-knowledge about the 911 attacks... Got just zotted.
These questions are NOT allowed, civilian...
That is how it is, and “free republic” lol. It never was anyhow. Not the the internet site, not the country.
It was free earlier because FedGov could not possibly watch or care about what some farmer did outside of Ames.
Now, everything we type is stored and available for analysis at a later point.
Who did it?
Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United States...
Also applies to the Epstein ring...
Good post. Hitler in fact had a mentally ill, retarded cousin who was gassed by his program to rid the world of lives “not worth living.”
It’s already back.
Try getting treated for cancer if you are 80 years of age. They’ll tell you you’re not strong enough for surgery or chemotherapy.
Go to any hospice. Every day old people are starved and dehydrated.
Useless people taking up oxygen and using resources better spent on illegals.
Yeah. I am in Norway..
Oddly listening to this genious kid singer Angelina Jordan.
Angelina Jordan - Born To Die
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNU-HcLuO_I
In Norway we have socialised medicine...
And, we have heard horror stories from government elderly care, so that is why I take care of him and he is desperate to stay in his house till he dies. His nightmare is to get under government care...
Yeah. The world we live in... It is run by psycopaths...
Norway was different than the other Scandinavian nations.
We celebrate massively on 17th of May our constitution day..
And, in that constitution - unlike the white supremacy in the American one...
It stated outright:
No jews
No Free Masons
No jesuits
All others are welcome to our new land.
Maybe these people in 1814 knew something we have lost?
What about No Pooftahs!
You can say what you want.
But, Sweden...
Who is vastly different and always was..
We are like two totally different countries now...
For one thing, we defunded all gender studies over a decade ago.
So there we beat America.
Btw, that is something Trump should do... And he can..
Defund all federal support for Universities with gender or race programs. They are meant to divide. Basically educating the termintes that will destroy the American body politic.
I guess that went without saying in those days.
Gay sex was only decriminalized in the 70’s sometime.
They are brainwashed by the public system, and major media outlets.
Here in Alberta, I’ve had to go in several times to sort out teachers even in a Christian school. It got so bad that they would see me coming up to the school and scatter like cockroaches when you turn on the light.
I tell Canadians they need to ditch public healthcare and public schooling. It’s the work of satan. I hear a lot of moaning about how free it is, when in fact it’s far more expensive than private, it’s rationed, and if the government has beef with you, you can be denied. It’s all about control.
My grandma was from Norway and she would tell me stories, my grandpa was from eastern Hungary and I’d hear about that. Everything they were getting away from they allowed to happen here, now here we are.
War is coming. It’s in the air. Brexit hopefully gets done soon. Hopefully the EU crashes down and falls apart, maybe some nations can get some sovereignty back, but I think a lot of places are done for. Too much Islam has already infiltrated and too many liberals.
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