The Holocaust: The T-Four Program
What the t-4 program really is
Opener: Many people don’t realize the pain and suffering that mentally disabled went through during the holocaust. They practically thought that they mentally ill was unworthy of living so they thought they only thing they could do was kill them. People don’t realize how much this impacted many horrific disasters that happened throughout the holocaust but several people didn’t seem to care but then there was others that actually did care what was going on and they thought what the doctors was doing was wrong and wanted to put a stop to it. No one really had a clue what was really going on so they didn’t get to see how much pain the mentally ill was in.
Thesis Statement: During the Holocaust Hitler decided to …show more content…
The t4 program was ideology of racial purity and methods of destruction so they thought it was the final solution (“The Holocaust Chronicle”). “They used the technical knowledge and experience gained during the euthanasia program to construct huge killing centers at Auschwitz, Treblinka and other concentration camps in an attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe,” (“The History Place”). “Thousands were killed at psychiatric institutions and paediatric clinics by being spoonfed lethal medicines and drugs,”.("Euthanasia in Nazi”). Since the T4 program was a secret the people running had to try hide the deadly designs (“Euthanasia Program”).“Even though physicians and institutional administrators falsified official records in every case to indicate that the victims died o f natural causes, the euthanasia program quickly become an open secret,” (“Euthanasia Program”). The use of the gas chambers began serving as training centers for the SS (“The History Place”). “The killing ended with the surrender in May, 1945 and the leading doctors were put on trial at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials,” ("Euthanasia in Nazi”). “The extermination program in Nazi Germany caused eugenics theorists in the United States and Europe to backpedal on their beliefs about eliminating mental illness and congenital disabilities …show more content…
The nurses at the centers performed different methods of murder (“The Holocaust Chronicle”). The public health authorities wanted the parents are disabilities kids to send their kids to a medical clinic but basically what it was a clinic where they killed their kids they killed the kids by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation (“Euthanasia Program”). The t-4 programmers sends in questionnaires to all public health places, nursing homes, for the illed and old age (“Euthanasia Program”). The patients that they selected to be killed was sent to one of the six euthanasia centers in Germany or Austria (“The Holocaust Chronicle”). “A decision on whether to allow the child to live was then made by three medical experts solely on the basis of the questionnaire, without any examination and without reading any medical records,” (“The History Place”). After Hitler decided to try and stop them from killing the patients in gas chambers, the program instead went undergrounds and they poisoned the patients and starved them to death,” (“Disability Social History”). “On May 8, 1945, the war ended in Germany. In the extermination institutes, they either kept on killing, or let the patients starve to death,” (“Disability Social History”). “So that patients who, on the basis of human judgment, are considered incurable, can be granted a mercy death after a discerning
Opener: Many people don’t realize the pain and suffering that mentally disabled went through during the holocaust. They practically thought that they mentally ill was unworthy of living so they thought they only thing they could do was kill them. People don’t realize how much this impacted many horrific disasters that happened throughout the holocaust but several people didn’t seem to care but then there was others that actually did care what was going on and they thought what the doctors was doing was wrong and wanted to put a stop to it. No one really had a clue what was really going on so they didn’t get to see how much pain the mentally ill was in.
Thesis Statement: During the Holocaust Hitler decided to …show more content…
The t4 program was ideology of racial purity and methods of destruction so they thought it was the final solution (“The Holocaust Chronicle”). “They used the technical knowledge and experience gained during the euthanasia program to construct huge killing centers at Auschwitz, Treblinka and other concentration camps in an attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe,” (“The History Place”). “Thousands were killed at psychiatric institutions and paediatric clinics by being spoonfed lethal medicines and drugs,”.("Euthanasia in Nazi”). Since the T4 program was a secret the people running had to try hide the deadly designs (“Euthanasia Program”).“Even though physicians and institutional administrators falsified official records in every case to indicate that the victims died o f natural causes, the euthanasia program quickly become an open secret,” (“Euthanasia Program”). The use of the gas chambers began serving as training centers for the SS (“The History Place”). “The killing ended with the surrender in May, 1945 and the leading doctors were put on trial at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials,” ("Euthanasia in Nazi”). “The extermination program in Nazi Germany caused eugenics theorists in the United States and Europe to backpedal on their beliefs about eliminating mental illness and congenital disabilities …show more content…
The nurses at the centers performed different methods of murder (“The Holocaust Chronicle”). The public health authorities wanted the parents are disabilities kids to send their kids to a medical clinic but basically what it was a clinic where they killed their kids they killed the kids by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation (“Euthanasia Program”). The t-4 programmers sends in questionnaires to all public health places, nursing homes, for the illed and old age (“Euthanasia Program”). The patients that they selected to be killed was sent to one of the six euthanasia centers in Germany or Austria (“The Holocaust Chronicle”). “A decision on whether to allow the child to live was then made by three medical experts solely on the basis of the questionnaire, without any examination and without reading any medical records,” (“The History Place”). After Hitler decided to try and stop them from killing the patients in gas chambers, the program instead went undergrounds and they poisoned the patients and starved them to death,” (“Disability Social History”). “On May 8, 1945, the war ended in Germany. In the extermination institutes, they either kept on killing, or let the patients starve to death,” (“Disability Social History”). “So that patients who, on the basis of human judgment, are considered incurable, can be granted a mercy death after a discerning