All for the sake of the mental health of the nation. “Death from pity” in the Third Reich
Nazis are building a new world
Europeans with Americans, who showed the Germans how to sterilize marginals, already in 1938 at the International Genetic Congress in Edinburgh made a timid attempt to curb the hysteria that was unleashed in Germany. The final statement, in particular, criticized the views of the National Socialists regarding the inheritance of antisocial and criminal behavior. Indeed, such a relationship is not just not studied, but not even fixed. However, such manifestos did not prevent the British, Americans and Scandinavians from promoting the ideas of racial hygiene and translating them into medical practice.
It is clear that the Third Reich bonuses did not pay much attention to scientists, among whom there were many Jews, and already in July 1939 in Berlin a meeting was held with prominent psychiatrists and directors of psychiatric hospitals. It was at this meeting that methods and methods were developed for killing the “genetic load” both in our own territory and in future occupied ones. As already said in the first part of the materialPerhaps the main goal of clearing the country of disabled, hopelessly sick and mentally disabled citizens was the release of hospitals and doctors to receive the wounded from the front. Actually, this practice has spread to countries that fell under the German hammer. So, already on 27 of September 1939, the patients of a hospital in Polish Gdynia were shot - later a German hospital appeared there. After the surrender of Poland, gas vans were used for the destruction of patients, in which at least 3000 hospital residents were killed. However, with the rampant violence against civilians in the ranks of the SS, especially “merciful” killers appeared, who were depressed by the actions. As a result, they went to the rear with mental disorders, where they were killed after the examination. Of course, one cannot talk about such widespread practice, but several cases were described in Ernst Kle's book “Euthanasia in the Third Reich. Destruction of an inferior life. " In addition, in Germany there was an action number 14f13, during which disabled people were selected in all concentration camps and later destroyed in gas chambers.
The most inhuman grin of the German racial hygiene program was the mass extermination of inferior children in 30 specialized clinics. Since August 1939, without exception, all doctors and obstetricians of the Third Reich have received a special order on the mandatory registration of all cases of the birth of children with disabilities. Hitler and his doctors decided to revive the principles of natural selection in a developed society by destroying at least ten thousand young and newborn children.
The Germans twenty years ago calculated their own losses from the T4 program and were horrified - only in Germany from 250 to 300 thousand people were killed.
The Münster Lion is not against
Blessed Clemens August Count von Galen, who, through his sermons, drew public attention to the cannibalistic practice of exterminating inferior Germans, was not at all opposed to transferring the T4 program to the eastern territories. At least, simple burghers did not hear any sermons from him about pity for the unfortunate in Poland and the USSR. The first victims in the Soviet Union were 464 patients of the Belarusian hospital in Khoroshch. In August 1941, Heinrich Himmler personally, when visiting the psychiatric colony “Novelties”, ordered “to relieve suffering” of all mentally ill people. But the problem was with the SS men, who were already so mentally exhausted at the constant executions (at one of them Himmler himself collapsed in a swoon) that it was decided to kill the unfortunates with an explosion. The head of the operational Einsatzgruppen in the Criminal Police, Arthur Nebe ordered that 24 patients be taken to a forest bunker and blown up there. This turned out to be not the most effective way of mass murder - it was necessary to lay explosives repeatedly and on a larger scale. Only the second time Himmler’s question was finally resolved.
Many historians also believe that Heaven conducted this action exclusively for research purposes, choosing the most humane way for the SS men to destroy people. In Mogilev, the sadist Nebe on patients in a psychiatric hospital was testing a method of killing in an airtight room, where the exhaust gases of a car were discharged. The entire course of the experimental action was filmed on video, which has been preserved and became material evidence at the Nuremberg trials. It turned out that the exhaust gases of one passenger car is not enough and still require a truck. In total, Arthur Nebe and Albert Widmann (an active member of the T4 program responsible for euthanasia in the Brandenburg camp) in Mogilev killed more than 1000 patients with gases. Heaven himself nearly suffocated in the garage when he drunk fell asleep in a running car. In 1945, his own were hanged as a dog because of involvement in the assassination attempt on Hitler. This, by the way, is very revealing of the characterization of some participants in the failed coup d'etat. Widman generally died peacefully in the 1985 year, having served a total of no more than 6 years.
For a change, the Germans got rid of patients in psychiatric clinics of the USSR in the most faithful, but also the most cruel way - they starved them. So, in Vinnitsa, after establishing the daily food norm in 100 grams of bread, most of the patients from 1800 died of exhaustion, the rest were shot. The attitude of the "new government" to the mentally ill representatives of the Slavs and Jews was very accurately described by the senior garrison doctor Kern:
Afterword
The main defendants in the killer doctors case were former imperial health commissioner Karl Brandt and T4 program manager Victor Braque. Both of them were hanged following the results of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi doctors in 1948. In total, only 90 doctors were convicted, of which most in the mid-50's were granted amnesty. They returned to medical practice and became respected doctors.
Niels Pörksen of the German-Polish Association for the Protection of Mental Health claims on the pages of the Bulletin of the Association of Psychiatrists of Ukraine that German doctors continued the practice of forced sterilization of the mentally ill until the beginning of the 70's. At the same time, former employees of the T4 program were involved as the most experienced in this matter. Only when the well-known student unrest began and in Germany began to evaluate involvement in the crimes of the Second World War, the sterilization was gradually turned off. But all the same, the overwhelming majority of the professors of the post-war German Association of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of Neurology took one or another part in the process of correspondence selection of patients within the framework of the T4 program. And only when the last of the "old guard" died or retired, did the Association formally plead guilty and publicly apologize. It happened in the 2001 year ... And nine years later, the following words were said:
- Evgeny Fedorov
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- T4 program. Triumph of German Eugenics
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