The Euthanasia Program or the T4 Program was a project carried out by Nazis during World War One. It was an attempt to eradicate the incurably ill, physically/mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, the elderly, and others the Nazi regime deemed “unfit to live”. Nazis believed that those who could not work were “useless eaters” and did not deserve to live. They believed that by weeding out these individuals, they could clean the Aryan Race, which was the Nazi ideal race. This “master race” was basically a blonde non-Jew white person. It was the precursor to the Holocaust. From 1939 to 1941, over 200,000 victims were killed with about 70,000 via gas chambers. The process involved surveys of all psychiatric institutions, hospitals, and homes
