[T'wit]

This is worth reading. The ideas we have heard a thousand times from our guests show up all-but word for word in the German Eugenics movement. This little essay goes back to 1920, although, of course, the ideas have much deeper roots. These ideas undermined the moral standards of a civilized, Christian country and fed the holocaust to come -- first the mentally and physically disabled, later the Jews and untermenschen.

I'd be inclined to skip the first two paragraphs and go straight to the history, but NBD either way.

Lessons from history [the eugenics roots of T-4]

[8mmMauser]

I hope everyone reads this as a reminder, our own as well as visitors who would hope to disrupt. Maybe they would realize their prattle only sounds brilliant to themselves, but merely annoying to us, a subject already developed long before most of us were born.

On the subject of untermenschen, a friend, the one who hosted me during the Pinellas Park vigil, once took me to see a place near where we were stationed in the '60's. It was in Germany and he showed me a beautiful building adorned with gingerbread type trim, a place oozing warmth and comfort. That, he explained is where before the war, many disabled people and kids entered and never emerged. Happy death indeed.

[bjs1779]

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Original of colorized T4 Baby above from Credit: USHMM, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park Copyright: Public Domain;Date: May 1945 Locale: Kaufbeuren, Germany:Close-up of Richard Jenne, the last child killed by the head nurse at the Kaufbeuren-Irsee euthanasia facility. [Photograph #78606]