Posted on 09/02/2014 9:04:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
A memorial to the victims of the Nazi T-4 euthanasia program will open on Tuesday September 2 in Berlin near the central Tiergarten park.
Nazi euthanasia memorial
The Times of Israel reported that a memorial to the approximate 300,000 physically and mentally disabled people who were murdered by the German regime between 1939 - 45, was approved in November 2011 and will open on September 2. The article stated that:
“The murder of tens of thousands of patients and residents of care homes was the first systematic mass crime of the National Socialist regime,” said Uwe Neumaerker, director of the memorial foundation.
“It is considered a forerunner of the extermination of European Jews.”
In 1941, he was taken to a clinic nearby in the town of Hadamar which had been transformed into a factory of death. There, immediately after his arrival, Traub was sent to a gas chamber and murdered with carbon monoxide.
His parents received word from the clinic that their son “died suddenly and unexpectedly of flu with subsequent meningitis.”
Because he suffered from a “serious, incurable mental illness,” the letter continued, the family should see his death as “a relief.”
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| Hans & Sophie Scholl |
In an elegant villa at Tiergartenstrasse 4, more than 60 Nazi bureaucrats and like-minded doctors worked in secret under the “T4″ program to organize the mass murder of sanatorium and psychiatric hospital patients deemed unworthy to live.
Between January 1940 and August 1941 doctors systematically gassed more than 70,000 people — the physically and mentally handicapped, those with learning disabilities, and people branded social “misfits” — at six sites across the German empire.
Protests by members of the public and leaders of the Catholic Church ended the T4 program but the killing went on.
From August 1941 until the war’s end in 1945, tens of thousands more died through forced starvation, neglect or fatal doses of painkillers such as morphine administered by purported caregivers.
Few of the killers were brought to justice after the war, despite high-profile trials like those of doctors at Nuremberg 1946-47, and many of the implicated medical professionals simply continued with their careers.
Meanwhile both West Germany and the communist East did little to recognize or compensate survivors.
Smaller plaques and markers have been installed at relevant sites across Germany in recent years but the T4 site is the first national memorial to honor these victims.
... unlike other groups, the “euthanasia” victims lacked a “strong lobby.”
“Many were forgotten for decades and still are, even by their own families”
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Yeah, it should come with a big picture of Richard Dawkins (and others I’m sure) and a sign that says: OF COURSE SOME PEOPLE STILL THINK THIS IS OK
where is the thoughtful memorials for the 30 million babies killed/slaughtered by abortion, over the last 30 years....
Soon to come here.
It was more than that. It was an atrocity in its own right. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. Unfortunately, we have people today who think this was all just fine and dandy, until the definition of lebensunwertes leben was expanded beyond what today's monsters consider useless eaters. They think it's okay to do this to people with names like Terri Schiavo, Lauren Richardson, Scott Thomas, and Haleigh Poutre. With a little more conditioning, they'll be willing to herd more groups into the killing machines, with blind confidence they will never have to join them. Fools.
"The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn." ~Pope John Paul II
homily at Radom military base in Warsaw, Poland on June 4, 1991.
~Ronald Reagan
How far we have fallen in this country.
Those two sure got along well together.
Great posts.
20 years ago it was nearly impossible to find information on the Nazi Tiergartenstrasse-4 project; the training ground for death camp staff and methods. Now there is a memorial to its victims. Lot’s of hidden, esoteric secrets coming to light in the age of info that needs to go viral. Start here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfpO-WBz_mw
Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them, that they started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitudes of physicians. It started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic to the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted, and finally all non-Germans.
During the 1930s, the Journal of the American Medical Association's German correspondent would, with great care for the dangers he faced, describe the changes in German medicine. 1933 saw the legalization of eugenic sterilization based on a model law championed by American progressives and used in a number of American states. In a 1927 decision, Buck v. Bell, the U.S. Supreme Court declared such laws constitutional. Germany at that point, was merely paying 'catch up' with the U.S.
I dare say, it’s already here.
Yes, it was wonderful.
Thanks, Salvation. Yours was great, too. Mother Angelica is one of my heroes.
Thanks, Yollopoliuhqui.
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