Nazi eugenics

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 53. Chapters: Master race, Action T4, Racial policy of Nazi Germany, Nordic race, Nuremberg Laws, Mischling, Action 14f13, Lebensborn, Doctors' Trial, Mischling Test, E. S. Gosney, Werner Lorenz, Ovitz family, Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring, Gerhard Kretschmar, Rhineland Bastard, Charitable Ambulance, Life unworthy of life, Ahnenpass, Expert Committee on Questions of Population and Racial Policy, Werner Catel, Fritz Schachermeyr, German Society for Racial Hygiene, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics, German Blood Certificate, Aryan certificate, Grafeneck Castle, Nur für Deutsche, Hereditary Health Court, Alles Leben ist Kampf, Reinrassig. Excerpt: Action T4 (German: ) was the name used after World War II for Nazi Germany's eugenics-based "euthanasia" program during which physicians killed thousands of people who were "judged incurably sick, by critical medical examination". The program officially ran from September 1939 until August 1941, but it continued unofficially until after the end of the Nazi regime in 1945. 70, 273 people were killed during the official stage of Action T4, but the Nuremberg Trials found evidence that German and Austrian physicians continued the extermination of patients after October 1941 and that about 275, 000 people were killed under T4. More recent research based on files that were recovered after 1990 gives a figure of at least 200, 000 physically or mentally handicapped people that were killed by medication, starvation, or in the gas chambers between 1939 and 1945. The name T4 was an abbreviation of "Tiergartenstraße 4", the address of a villa in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten which was the headquarters of the Gemeinnützige Stiftung für Heil- und Anstaltspflege, bearing the euphemistic name literally translating into English: . This body operated under the direction of Philipp Bouhler, the head of Hitler's private chancellery, and Dr. Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician. This villa no longer exists, but a plaque set in the pavement on Tiergartenstraße marks its location. The "euthanasia decree", written on Adolf Hitler's personal stationery and dated 1 September 1939, reads as follows: Reich Leader Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be granted a mercy death . Viktor Brack Organiser of the T4 ProgramThe T4 program is thought to have developed from the Nazi Party's policy of "racial hygiene", the belief that the German people needed to be "cleansed" of "racially un