20. Jahrhundert: 1914-1945 | Nationalsozialismus
Euthanasia
Killing instead of healing: This is the principle according to which the Nazi state treats people with disabilities or mental illnesses. From as early as 1934, hundreds of thousands are forcibly sterilised, and once the war begins, they are systematically murdered – as an "act of mercy" on behalf of the Führer. Doctors, psychiatrists and nurses become compliant executors and help to exterminate the "life unworthy of life" in special killing centres. In Hadamar alone, 20,000 people are gassed or killed by pills, injections and starvation. Which is officially disguised by the term "euthanasia" ("good death"), is a torturous method of mass murder in fact. By the end of the war, 250,000 people have fallen victim to it – including 5,000 children.
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