All For Nothing: Euthanasia for Disabled Minors Returns to Europe: Woe to mankind!

Rorate Caeli ^ | October 2, 2026 | New Catholic

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All For Nothing: Euthanasia for Disabled Minors Returns to Europe: Woe to mankind!

1938: "This person who suffers a hereditary disease has a lifelong cost of 60,000 Reichsmarks to the National Community. Fellow German, that is your money as well."

And so it has come to pass once again. Euthanasia, that starts with "consenting" adults (though God only knows how much this "consent" is fabricated each time by family members unwilling to help their relatives to the end), ends up swallowing everything. 

The first case in the Netherlands after the approval of the extension of the law happened this week:

A severely disabled 1-year-old child has been euthanized by doctors in the Netherlands, a government review board has confirmed. It is the first case reported by authorities that was guided by new rules allowing for the termination of life of seriously ill children between the ages of 1 and 12 in the European nation. 

The child, whose sex and identity have not been disclosed, had extensive and irreversible brain damage, severe cerebral palsy, epilepsy and visual impairment, according to the assessment published by the Netherlands' Review Committee on Late-term Abortions and Termination of Life of Neonates and Children aged under 12, which is responsible for reviewing such cases. (CBS)

At least the astonishingly named committee has, in typical Dutch fashion, a very frank name: late term abortions and the execution of children after birth are exactly the same thing. So much for European pride in "abolishing" the death penalty! While murderers and child rapists are coddled in jail and released, innocent disabled children are quite clearly executed by the state.

All the suffering, all the pain of the world wars and their destruction of life, property, and civilization, and we arrive once again at the same European self-hating nightmare of a life without Christ.

Let us recall the brave sermon of (future) Cardinal Von Gallen, bishop of Münster, 85 years ago, on August 3rd, 1941:

Fellow Christians! In the pastoral letter of the German bishops of June 26, 1941, which was read out in all the Catholic churches in Germany on July 6, 1941, it states among other things: It is true that there are definite commandments in Catholic moral doctrine which are no longer applicable if their fulfillment involves too many difficulties.

However, there are sacred obligations of conscience from which no one has the power to release us and which we must fulfil even if it costs us our lives. Never under any circumstances may a human being kill an innocent person apart from war and legitimate self-defense. On July 6, I already had cause to add to the pastoral letter the following explanation: for some months we have been hearing reports that, on the orders of Berlin, patients from mental asylums who have been ill for a long time and may appear incurable, are being compulsorily removed. Then, after a short time, the relatives are regularly informed that the corpse has been burnt and the ashes can be delivered. There is a general suspicion verging on certainty, that these numerous unexpected deaths of mentally ill people do not occur of themselves but are deliberately brought about, that the doctrine is being followed, according to which one may destroy so-called 'worthless life,' that is, kill innocent people if one considers that their lives are of no further value for the nation and the state.

I am reliably informed that lists are also being drawn up in the asylums of the province of Westphalia as well of those patients who are to be taken away as so-called 'unproductive national comrades' and shortly to be killed. The first transport left the Marienthal institution near Münster during this past week.

German men and women, section 211 of the Reich Penal Code is still valid. It states: 'He who deliberately kills another person will be punished by death for murder if the killing is premeditated.'

Those patients who are destined to be killed are transported away from home to a distant asylum presumably in order to protect those who deliberately kill those poor people, members of our families, from this legal punishment. Some illness is then given as the cause of death. Since the corpse has been burnt straight away, the relatives and also the criminal police are unable to establish whether the illness really occurred and what the cause of death was.

However, I have been assured that the Reich Interior Ministry and the office of the Reich Doctors' Leader, Dr. Conti, make no bones about the fact that in reality a large number of mentally ill people in Germany have been deliberately killed and more will be killed in the future.

The Penal Code lays down in section 139: 'He who receives credible information concerning the intention to commit a crime against life and neglects to alert the authorities or the person who is threatened in time...will be punished.'

When I learned of the intention to transport patients from Marienthal in order to kill them, I brought a formal charge at the State Court in Münster and with the Police President in Münster by means of a registered letter which read as follows: "According to information which I have received, in the course of this week a large number of patients from the Marienthal Provincial Asylum near Münster are to be transported to the Eichberg asylum as so-called 'unproductive national comrades' and will then soon be deliberately killed, as is generally believed has occurred with such transports from other asylums. Since such an action is not only contrary to the moral laws of God and Nature but also is punishable with death as murder under section 211 of the Penal Code, I hereby bring a charge in accordance with my duty under section 139 of the Penal Code, and request you to provide immediate protection for the national comrades threatened in this way by taking action against those agencies who are intending their removal and murder, and that you inform me of the steps that have been taken."

I have received no news concerning intervention by the Prosecutor's Office or by the police...Thus we must assume that the poor helpless patients will soon be killed.

For what reason?

Not because they have committed a crime worthy of death. Not because they attacked their nurses or orderlies so that the latter had no other choice but to use legitimate force to defend their lives against their attackers. Those are cases where, in addition to the killing of an armed enemy in a just war, the use of force to the point of killing is allowed and is often required.

No, it is not for such reasons that these unfortunate patients must die but rather because, in the opinion of some department, on the testimony of some commission, they have become 'worthless life' because according to this testimony they are 'unproductive national comrades.' The argument goes: they can no longer produce commodities, they are like an old machine that no longer works, they are like an old horse which has become incurably lame, they are like a cow which no longer gives milk.

What does one do with such an old machine? It is thrown on the scrap heap. What does one do with a lame horse, with such an unproductive cow?

No, I do not want to continue the comparison to the end--however fearful the justification for it and the symbolic force of it are. We are not dealing with machines, horses and cows whose only function is to serve mankind, to produce goods for man. One may smash them, one may slaughter them as soon as they no longer fulfil this function.

No, we are dealing with human beings, our fellow human beings, our brothers and sisters. With poor people, sick people, if you like unproductive people.

But have they for that reason forfeited the right to life?

Have you, have I the right to live only so long as we are productive, so long as we are recognized by others as productive?

If you establish and apply the principle that you can kill 'unproductive' fellow human beings then woe betide us all when we become old and frail! If one is allowed to kill the unproductive people then woe betide the invalids who have used up, sacrificed and lost their health and strength in the productive process. If one is allowed forcibly to remove one's unproductive fellow human beings then woe betide loyal soldiers who return to the homeland seriously disabled, as cripples, as invalids. If it is once accepted that people have the right to kill 'unproductive' fellow humans--and even if initially it only affects the poor defenseless mentally ill--then as a matter of principle murder is permitted for all unproductive people, in other words for the incurably sick, the people who have become invalids through labor and war, for us all when we become old, frail and therefore unproductive.

Then, it is only necessary for some secret edict to order that the method developed for the mentally ill should be extended to other 'unproductive' people, that it should be applied to those suffering from incurable lung disease, to the elderly who are frail or invalids, to the severely disabled soldiers. Then none of our lives will be safe any more. Some commission can put us on the list of the 'unproductive,' who in their opinion have become worthless life. And no police force will protect us and no court will investigate our murder and give the murderer the punishment he deserves.

Who will be able to trust his doctor any more?

He may report his patient as 'unproductive' and receive instructions to kill him. It is impossible to imagine the degree of moral depravity, of general mistrust that would then spread even through families if this dreadful doctrine is tolerated, accepted and followed.

Woe to mankind, woe to our German nation if God's Holy Commandment 'Thou shalt not kill,' which God proclaimed on Mount Sinai amidst thunder and lightning, which God our Creator inscribed in the conscience of mankind from the very beginning, is not only broken, but if this transgression is actually tolerated and permitted to go unpunished. (Blessed Clemens Von Galen)

 

Those were words that stormed through Germany; the letter of the Bishop of Limburg, Antonius Hilfrich, to the government followed it ten days later.

Several times a week, busses carrying large numbers of these patients arrive at the local institution of Hadamar from various mental institutions. The local citizens know that these individuals are slated for destruction. The effect of the arrivals is terrible, as the children call out when the busses pass: 'Here come the killing busses again!' Every day, the citizens see the smoke rising from the crematorium chimney and are deeply distressed by the constant smell of burning flesh.

The consequence of this state-sanctioned policy is a profound and rapid decline in the public’s confidence in the law. High and low, educated and uneducated, everyone knows that these systematic executions of the defenseless are taking place without any legal basis.

The consciousness of God's law, as well as the written law of the Reich, is being entirely undermined. If the state wishes to maintain the respect of its citizens, this lawless destruction of human life must be brought to an immediate halt.

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TOPICS: Current Events; Moral Issues; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: eugenics; europe; euthansia; genocide

[ebb tide]

Ping

[JZelle]

Perhaps they could send Clancy and her friends over there to help out.

[Salman]

It’s not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.

[cpdiii]

Odd is it not that in Canada Euthanasia is easy and simple and vile. If done by a non-governmental agency under the exact same circumstances it is a crime.

I also understand the end of life, as a clinical pharmacist. Those are hard choices. Government should never make that choice as the NAZIs did. It should only be the choice of the patient if rational. If not, rational we have a problem of motive of his or her decedents in the decision making process. It is not easy.

[GingisK]

Require it for anyone making a C, and I bet grades soar.

[MtnClimber]

I would be OK with Euthanasia for leftist politicians.

[muir_redwoods]

Both parents have untreated venereal diseases. Mom has already had 16 children none of whom have survived. She’s now pregnant with #17. Would you abort?

If you do, the world would do without Vivaldi.

[PGalt]

HORRIFIC. Unloved, undesirables, useless eaters, bitter clingers, basket of deplorables, directed evolution, etc.

[LouAvul]

Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, was a fan of Hitler’s eugenics philosophy and the “Negro Project.” Funny how they forget.

[Karliner]

Great world we have, late term abortion, filicide, killing the people with depression and the developmental. Inject the planet. Only now it’s more intelligent right?
Gotta save the planet. Sacrifice to Gaia.

Completely scientific.

[SisterK]

that’s how Hitler started
the lame, the disabled, and it grew from there

[Texas Eagle]

And many demonicRATS have received The Margaret Sanger Award. Doesn’t seem to be as celebrated as it once was.

[ifinnegan]

First thing Nazis did.

[trebb]

They must have watched the movie, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”