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Mentally handicapped and Psychiatric patients
are "useless eaters" for the Nazis, who only cost
money - but bring nothing - which impair the
"healthy body of the people".
From 1939 Hitler pursued a simple and quick "solution" and
gave the order to kill these people "by grace", "to redeem"
them.
A questionnaire is used to select the people for these murders
of the sick by doctors:
There are three things at stake here:
• Who's the sick one?
• How severe is the disease or disability?
• Can and will he work?
In 1941, the first phase of centralized murder is interrupted
after a total of more than 70,000 murder victims ("T4"
campaign) due to interventions by isolated church people.
From the end of 1942, the "euthanasia" murders continued -
but now behind closed doors: with the support of the "T4"
organizations in Berlin, each sanatorium determined - for
various reasons - which patients as death candidates were
transferred to a killing sanatorium by special train. There are
mass murders with sleeping pills and starvation. Only simple
water soups are served, without nutrients, and dry bread with
Pell potatoes as topping.
At least 1,017 patients will also be deported from the
Gütersloh sanatorium.
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