(July 31, 2024 at 4:09 pm)Pat Mustard Wrote:(July 31, 2024 at 1:50 pm)Ivan Denisovich Wrote: He's not talking about killing them. But nazis too rarely said what they really meant so it might be another deadly euphemism.
Lebensunwertes Leben originally started out with a plan to starve the "unworthy" slowly over time, basically the same as Kennedy's plan would do.
It did though lethal injections also were used practically since the beginning. To quote from Alex Kay Empire of Destruction:
The first ‘special children’s ward’ was set up in summer 1940 in
Görden, Brandenburg. Its director was the psychiatrist Hans Heinze, who –
like Werner Catel – was one of the three consultants of the Reich
Committee. The senior physician on the ward was Dr Friederike Pusch; she
also trained doctors from other ‘special children’s wards’ in the methods
used to murder the patients. A total of 172 children were sent by the Reich
Committee to the ward in Görden; 147 of them, or 85 per cent, were
murdered there. In marked contrast to the circular decree issued by the
Ministry of the Interior on 18 August 1939, which had stipulated that
newborns and infants up to the age of three years be registered, more than
40 per cent of those murdered in Görden were aged between three and
thirteen years. (At the aforementioned Eglfing-Haar mental hospital,
almost 60 per cent of the victims were older than three years of age.) As a
rule, the children were murdered one at a time. For the most part, the
barbiturate phenobarbital was used, administered as tablets or by
injection, to induce hypostatic pneumonia, from which the children died.
In this way, death from ‘natural causes’ could be simulated. (At Eglfing-
Haar, 93 per cent of the children were murdered in this way.) It took
between two and five days for the children to die. By the end of the war, a
total of 1,270 children had died in the ‘special children’s ward’ in Görden,
while another 430 had been transferred from Görden to the gassing
facilities of the so-called Operation T4 (Aktion T4) and murdered there. [Alex Kay, Empire of Destruction, page 37].
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