New Berlin memorial revives memories of doctors’ role in Nazi holocaust
By Dr. Peter Saunders. Officials gathered in Berlin [in early July] to lay the foundations for a monument to the people killed as part of the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ programs. The planned exhibit will be dedicated to the victims of the ‘euthanasia’ program, code named ‘T4’, used by the Nazis to kill those with physical or mental illnesses.
It will be situated not far from a memorial to the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust opened in 2005 and a memorial to the half a million Roma victims of the Nazis opened in 2012.
Many still fail to appreciate the role of doctors in the Nazi holocaust but what ended in the 1940s in the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Dachau and Treblinka had much more humble beginnings in the 1930s in nursing homes, geriatric hospitals and psychiatric institutions all over Germany.
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