Mao would be far prouder.
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Sadly enough, the euthanasia—first of the mentally retarded, and mentally ill—programs in Germany, that culminated in the Holocaust, started NOT under the Nazis, but in the democratic Weimar Republic.
Of course the Nazis made it (much) worse, and greatly sped of the “mercy killing” of those whose “life was not worth living” (Hitler’s terms), but my point is, it was originally a product of the modern secular state in Germany—BEFORE even the infection of National Socialism took hold.