Aktion T4 was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings.[4] The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, which recruited and paid personnel associated with Aktion T4.[5][b] Certain German physicians were authorised to select patients “deemed incurably sick, after most critical medical examination” and then administer to them a “mercy death” (Gnadentod).[7] In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a “euthanasia note”, backdated to 1 September 1939, which authorised his physician Karl Brandt and ReichsleiterPhilipp Bouhler to begin the killing.
I think “genocide” is appropriate here - it’s a group of people, selected because of a shared trait that were mass murdered.
The first sentence I think covers it: “A campaign of mass murder” states what it actually was, and “by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany” states what the Nazis claimed it was.
To the Right, only the in-group should be alive at all. Everyone not in the in-group is a waste of resources. It’s important that we understand this, as it’s the same thing now as it was in the 1930s and 1940s. To them, “mercy killing” meant merciful to the Nazis and care takers. It meant that it removed the burden on them of the people they didn’t desire.
Aktion T4 was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings.[4] The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, which recruited and paid personnel associated with Aktion T4.[5][b] Certain German physicians were authorised to select patients “deemed incurably sick, after most critical medical examination” and then administer to them a “mercy death” (Gnadentod).[7] In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a “euthanasia note”, backdated to 1 September 1939, which authorised his physician Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler to begin the killing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4
I hate the use of “euthanasia” and “mercy death”. This was genocide, perpetrated by nazi germany and nazi doctors.
Thanks for the summary, hadnt really heard of the specifics of this.
I think genocide isnt really the right term here, but i agree with the sentiment that it should be treated as such.
Yep. It’s crazy to me the term used by the nazis “involuntary euthanasia” is the same that is used by wikipedia.
Its like calling “rape”, “involuntary lovemaking”.
I think “genocide” is appropriate here - it’s a group of people, selected because of a shared trait that were mass murdered.
The first sentence I think covers it: “A campaign of mass murder” states what it actually was, and “by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany” states what the Nazis claimed it was.
To the Right, only the in-group should be alive at all. Everyone not in the in-group is a waste of resources. It’s important that we understand this, as it’s the same thing now as it was in the 1930s and 1940s. To them, “mercy killing” meant merciful to the Nazis and care takers. It meant that it removed the burden on them of the people they didn’t desire.