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The Nazi Euthanasia Program

The Nazi Euthanasia Program

  • Hitler created the "Euthanasia program" in 1939.
  • The groups mission was secret.
  • Hitler targeted children first.
  • Parents were encouraged to send their mentally disabled children to "special hospitals."
  • Soon the program included children up to 17 years old.
  • Children were killed by starvation and lethal injections.
  • The Euthanasia program has left a lasting impression on many German families
  • Beginning January 1940, Hitler extended the program for adults.
  • Adults were killed in gas chambers.
  • After the war was over, 23 doctors were put on trial in Nuremberg.
  • 16 were pronounced guilty and 7 were sentenced to death.
  • According to Nazi records, the "euthanasia" effort claimed the lives of 70,273 mentally ill people.
  • But, it is estimated that about 300,000 people were murdered by the program.

  • The "Euthanasia program" was the first program of mass murder by the Nazis.
  • Even parents of the mentally ill felt shame and embarrassment.
  • Hitler and the Nazis created propaganda which showed mentally disabled people as a burden upon society.
  • German citizens started to believe this.
  • When people started to find out about what was really going on, Hitler ordered a halt to the program.
  • However, the program continued until the end of the war.
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