The Nazis believed their actions resulted in “cleansing” the Aryan race of the mentally ill, although it just resulted in many lives lost (“‘Euthanasia’ Killings”). The euthanasia program prevailed as the Nazi’s first form of mass murder (“Euthanasia Program”). The main forms of euthanasia consisted of starvation, poisoning, injections, or gassing (“‘Euthanasia’ Killings”). The Nazis intended for the killings to remain painless and humane, but they carried on, nonetheless, neither painless nor humane (Evans 32). The program targeted mentally and physically disabled patients in institutions (“Euthanasia Program”). The Nazis transported patients from institutions to gassing installations. The physicians then gassed the patients, with pure
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Hitler created the euthanasia program to systematically kill thousands of people. He labeled any human being with a disability a “useless eater” (“‘Euthanasia’ Killings”). The Nazis murdered thousands of innocent men, women, and children. Hitler did not only viciously murder Jews, disabled people, and those unable to work in concentration camps. Hitler murdered many disabled people in the place they looked at as home. He transformed mental institutes, asylums, and people’s homes into euthanasia killing centers. Hitler created an abundance of euthanasia killing centers. The euthanasia killings took place at three of the major killing centers, the Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre, the Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre, and the Bernburg Euthanasia …show more content…
Formally, this institute functioned as a mental home with 132 beds. Dr. Irmfried Eberl, known as the physician-in-chief of the Bernburg Centre, transformed eighty square meters of the Men’s House into a killing facility. The Nazis then founded a fake organization know as the Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care to disguise the euthanasia program called Aktion T4. During Aktion T4, a gas chamber measuring fourteen square meters killed 8,601 people. The killings began with twenty-five victims of the mental home at Neuruppin; when the victims arrived at the hospital, an employee of Hitler's registered them, forced them to undress and made them give up any valuable items on them. Next, the physicians would inspect the victim to identify a plausible cause of death that the relatives would believe. After the gassing, the seven SS stokers, crematory workers, cremated the bodies of the victims; the SS men did not identify the ashes of the victims after cremating them. Additionally, the nurses and physicians marked victims with distinctive physical features with a red cross on their back. The coroner would then perform an autopsy on any corpse with a red cross after gassing. Another secret operation, Sonderbehandlung 14f13 (special treatment 14f13), occurred at the Bernburg Centre. The euthanasia physicians and nurses killed five thousand people between the years 1941 and
Hitler created the euthanasia program to systematically kill thousands of people. He labeled any human being with a disability a “useless eater” (“‘Euthanasia’ Killings”). The Nazis murdered thousands of innocent men, women, and children. Hitler did not only viciously murder Jews, disabled people, and those unable to work in concentration camps. Hitler murdered many disabled people in the place they looked at as home. He transformed mental institutes, asylums, and people’s homes into euthanasia killing centers. Hitler created an abundance of euthanasia killing centers. The euthanasia killings took place at three of the major killing centers, the Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre, the Brandenburg Euthanasia Centre, and the Bernburg Euthanasia …show more content…
Formally, this institute functioned as a mental home with 132 beds. Dr. Irmfried Eberl, known as the physician-in-chief of the Bernburg Centre, transformed eighty square meters of the Men’s House into a killing facility. The Nazis then founded a fake organization know as the Charitable Foundation for Institutional Care to disguise the euthanasia program called Aktion T4. During Aktion T4, a gas chamber measuring fourteen square meters killed 8,601 people. The killings began with twenty-five victims of the mental home at Neuruppin; when the victims arrived at the hospital, an employee of Hitler's registered them, forced them to undress and made them give up any valuable items on them. Next, the physicians would inspect the victim to identify a plausible cause of death that the relatives would believe. After the gassing, the seven SS stokers, crematory workers, cremated the bodies of the victims; the SS men did not identify the ashes of the victims after cremating them. Additionally, the nurses and physicians marked victims with distinctive physical features with a red cross on their back. The coroner would then perform an autopsy on any corpse with a red cross after gassing. Another secret operation, Sonderbehandlung 14f13 (special treatment 14f13), occurred at the Bernburg Centre. The euthanasia physicians and nurses killed five thousand people between the years 1941 and