Mass Murders Research Paper

“The Road to Mass Murder and those who did not remain silent” By the beginning of 1939 the National Socialist German Workers ' Party or more commonly referred to now as the Nazis began their mass murders. These first mass murders were not to be of Jews, Roma, Sinti, or any of the other numerous people who were seen and to be seen as hindrances and impurities in the way of the coming “Aryan empire”, but they were to be disabled individuals. These mass murders were first a testing ground, so to speak, by the Nazi leadership to see what the German people would accept, as well as, a future blueprint concerning how these mass murders should be carried out and conveyed. Within this paper, exploration concerning the beginnings of the Nazi euthanasia …show more content…
Brandt and Bouhler were to tell the doctors that if any legal action were to be taken against them, it would be thrown out of court (Bergen 99). Brandt and Bouhler were then given similar permission to deal with these types of cases in the same way, they also recruited doctors and officials who willingly cooperated (Bergen 99). According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, “On August 18, 1939, the Reich Ministry of the Interior circulated a decree requiring all physicians, nurses, and midwives to report newborn infants and children under the age of three who showed signs of severe mental or physical disability”, subsequently parents were encouraged by public health authorities to admit their young children to special pediatric clinics within Germany and Austria (“Euthanasia Program”, 2016). The children brought to these clinics were subsequently murdered by those individuals who were supposed to be taking care of them, the children were either starved to death or given a lethal overdose. During the children’s “euthanasia” program it is estimated that at the least 5,000 physically and mentally disabled German children were murdered (“Euthanasia Program”, …show more content…
Why? Not because they have committed crimes worthy of death….It is simply because that according to some doctor, or because of the decision of some committee, they have no longer a right to live because they are “unproductive citizens.”…Once [we] admit the right to kill unproductive persons…then none of us can be sure of his life. We shall be at the mercy of any committee that can put a man on the list of unproductives. There will be no police protection, no court to avenge the murder and inflict punishment upon the murderer.…A curse on men and on the German people if we break the holy commandment “Thou shalt not kill” which was given us by God on Mount Sinai with thunder and lightning, and which God our Maker imprinted on the human conscience from the beginning of time! Woe to us German people if we not only license this heinous offence but allow it to be committed with impunity! (“Blessed Clemens August, Graf von Galen”,