On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember Disabled People who perished in the Nazi Aktion T-4 Programme

 

27th January 2013 by Jemima Khant 

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.

Here’s a film about the disabled victims of Aktion T4 in Italy.

Hitlers’ scheme was identical to Atos and the ‘Liverpool Care Pathway’ in that its goal was to cut spending by reducing the number of hospitalised patients by any means necessary.

This video explains the lies victims and their families were told about the ‘specialist treatment’ they would received at hospitals, where they were experimented on before being gassed. 

See also: 

Nazi persecution of people with disabilities and what this means for us today

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The ‘Euthanasia’ Programme

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_T4

http://www.t4holocaust.com/ 

Allport’s Scale of Prejudice and Discrimination

Dani Neumann’s talk on the sign of the Black Triangle at West London Synagogue for Holocaust Memorial Day 2012

http://www.gelsenzentrum.de/euthanasie_morde_t4.htm