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The T-4 Euthanasia Program

The T-4 Euthanasia Program. Ayoub K. What is euthanasia?. Euthanasia is an “assisted suicide,” and the loosely used term, “mercy killing.” Basically it is to take a deliberately kill or show intention of wanting dead, someone who is born with a deformity or such.

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The T-4 Euthanasia Program

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  1. The T-4 Euthanasia Program Ayoub K.

  2. What is euthanasia? • Euthanasia is an “assisted suicide,” and the loosely used term, “mercy killing.” • Basically it is to take a deliberately kill or show intention of wanting dead, someone who is born with a deformity or such. • The back up of supporters is that they end the life of someone in misery.

  3. 4. T-4 program creation • FoundedSeptember 1939 to August 1941, continuingunofficiallyuntil the end of the Nazi regimein 1945. • The name T4 wasabbreviation for Tiergartenstrasse. Whichwas the location of a « Charitable and Curative Institution »

  4. 3. Whathappened? • News of T4 Program went public. • Church started to question. • Hitler ordered program to go underground, and instead of gassing the patients. He order poisoning and starving to death. • May 8, 1945, war ended in Germany. • The killings in the institutes were on going. • Under the Nazi reign, an estimated 250,000 disabled were killed.

  5. Hamdar Institute

  6. 2. T-4 Program Treatments • The victims of the T-4 Program were not justkilled on spot. • The mentallyand physicallydisabledwerekilled by gassing and lethal injection. The patients wouldbe in the worst pain theyhad been in right beforetheydied. • « Sympathy »

  7. Hartheim Castle. Located in Hartheim, Austria, it is the killing center of the physical and mentally disabled.

  8. 5. Nazi Logic • The Nazi’sbelieved of euthanasia as «sympathy» for the mentallydisabled, ill, and etc. • There excuse wasthat a childbornwithany of theseillnessesshould not bare living withsuch a horrible life, beingconsideredoutcasts.

  9. Evidence • Alfred E. Houche was crucial about the hygiene of people, and mentioned of how some will devolve if they are not rid of.

  10. Nazi Logiccontinued The ill or mentallydisabledwere not givenchoices or second thoughts. Such as the fact if theycouldgetbetter, or if theyactuallyhad a mutation thatbenefitedthem more than the normal humans.

  11. Second thoughtsanyone? • There weremanyways the mentally and physicallydisabledcouldbehelped to have an easier life. • The part of sympathycompletelyremoves the factthat Hitler wanted « PERFECT » humans. • The: « Blonde, blueeyed, tall, handsome, and stronghumansuperioritytheory » Hitler didn’t count.

  12. Treatments for physically disabled

  13. 6. Religion • Most of the higher-up Nazi commanders or the people in charge weren’t close to their religion or did not believe in an entitythatcreatedthem. Theysawthemselves as «Gods» thathad the ability to choose life and death for others. • This coincideswith the factthatmany of the supporters wereLutheran & Catholic

  14. 1. Nazi enfoncement of PHYSICAL DISABILITATING • Now the Nazi’swere to end people withphysicaldisabilitiesbecausetheyhadempathy. • Concentration camps involvedexperiments on Jewswhichphysicaltransformedthemselves in suchhorrifyingways. • Whereis the sympathynow?

  15. Hypocrisy • Hitler wasbornwithCryptorchidism. • According to one Medicwhichaided Hitler on the field. He reported Hitler had one testicle. • Yethekilled people not bornwithfullyfunctional components.

  16. What happened to oppositions? • Doctors who were assigned to the T4 Program were considered burdens just like the disabled people and put away with secretly or let alone. • The Roman Catholic Church opposed because they were to oppose the killing of others even if it cost them their lives. For people who did, it cost them.

  17. Works Cited • "Disability Social History Project." Disability Social History Project. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. • "Euthanasia Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." Euthanasia Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. • "Holocaust History." Euthanasia Program. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. • "T-4 Origins, Planning & Staff Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org." T-4 Origins, Planning & Staff Www.HolocaustResearchProject.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. • "T4 Program (Nazi Policy)." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica, n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. • "The T-4 Euthanasia Program." The T-4 Euthanasia Program. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013. All images attained from "Google Images." Google Images. N.p., n.d. Web. 04 Mar. 2013.

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