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Aktion T4 - Nazi Extermination Program for the Disabled - History Documentary
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2024
- Nazi Extermination Program for the Disabled - Aktion T4 | Professor Graeme Yorston
This history documentary describes one of the darkest chapters in human history - the extermination of 300,000 people with physical and mental disabilities by the Nazi regime in Germany.
It began soon after Hitler came to power with a forced sterilization program, but it evolved into mass murder.
They called it Gnadentod or merciful death - but no mercy was shown to the victims - initially just babies and young children, but later older children and adults.
Learn about one of the hospitals where children were killed on a daily basis and how one of the doctors remained in his post after the war and even kept his private collection of his victims’ brains.
This was a tough video to do - and it won’t be easy to watch - but it is important that we never forget what happened.
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Thank you. We must Never Forget.
And yet people are far less aware of this than of other aspects of the Nazi atrocities.
Those of us who have seen this coming... Both past and present... We've been trying to warn you... but our warning always fall on deaf ears... And by the time you realize we were right... it's always too late...
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
-Martin Niemöller
Thank you, this is very profound.
@@professorgraemeyorston thank you so much... I'm getting prepared atm to maybe start my own channel
It's nonsense
Past generations try and warn posterity. "The Poisoned Needle" by Dr Eleanor MacBean(1957).
Lily Loat.
And many more.
Man never learns but keeps repeating the same pattern.
What a vile malignancy lives among us.
GOD, please end this repetition of evil.
30 or so years ago, as part of a fact-finding team to Austria, I visited a home for adults with learning disabilities. "You don't seem to have many elderly clients.", someone asked. Our host coughed, muttered and changed the subject. Then the penny dropped and the room went about 20 degrees colder.
Thank you, this brings it home how much of a lasting impact on society the program had.
I lie to my kids when I tell them there are no such things as "monsters"...
I can't bring myself to tell them that there most certainly are such things...
and that the even more frightening thing, is that they look like regular people.
Thanks Mike, I guess that the difference between the innocence of childhood when the knights in shining armour always win, and adulthood when you realise they don't.
Don't feel badly. There will be plenty of time for them to learn.
They aren't monsters. They are just eugenists
People who committed heinous crimes in Auschwitz and Nanjing were not monsters, but ordinary citizens who were good husbands, fathers and sons at home. Once we are integrated into huge fanatic organizations as small cogs in the big wheels, even well-educated people could not judge independently and they would commit wrongdoings without senses of sin. Our conscience is very vulnerable to peer pressure.
It's difficult enough to imagine nursing staff giving lethal injections to defenseless children, but to think how they ignored the cries of the infants they were starving to death... evil beyond my comprehension.
And knowing that many of them just continued their jobs after the war...
Dehumanization of “the other” can make you do quite a bit of evil.
I still have PTSD from what was done to me nearly 60 years ago, being born with Goldenhar Syndrome. I strongly suspect I was seen then - and still am - seen as a lesser being by some people.
@eduardmedrea1930 what - that I’m seen as a lesser being? It’s simple, really - if you are somehow different, there are people that see you as a threat to their *exalted* existence by your mere presence. This means they don’t want you around to *poison* their world - and if they can “dispose of” all persons like you, their world will somehow be “greatly improved.”
These people commonly see themselves as superior beings, and often have pseudo-magical notions of “purity” operating at a (usually) unconscious level. That means they have a fear of Contamination, much as if they were deep into “Hindutva” and saw themselves as a kind of Brahmin.
This also leads to “Cultish” behavior, and an overall aspect of “everything operates by Magic(k), hence one only needs to know the right people (seen as arch-Magicians, e.g. Leaders with dictatorial powers) the right “chants” (catch-phrases, or in some cases, actual chants or *Mantras* ) or have the correct appearances, tools, vehicles, etc.”
This last is a form of *impression-management.*
@@dennisyoung4631. I had to look this syndrome up as I had never heard of it. Even though it’s been so long, bless you and hope you can heal.
@@janiehill4256 what I have isn’t *quite* as noticeable as some vids show on UA-cam. My face is slightly lopsided, I’m deaf on my right side, my right “ear” was almost completely missing - and there’s a lot of other stuff, most of which wasn’t diagnosed until later in life. Some was *misdiagnosed,* resulting in some serious, life-altering mistreatment. Much of it was treated by others as evidence of bad character/innate evil/?? - as if I only tried harder, I could act “normal.”
I now know what they meant by “Normal” - accept my defined status as a lesser being, and give them, my betters, that worship they were due. I wasn’t able to do so then, because I didn’t have the usual ways of discerning such things, and no one had thought to teach me. I still don’t have the *usual* ways, but I did receive some information about how the bad parts of peoples’ minds work.
It *is* bad enough that I’ve caught all kinds of since I was born.
Thank you for this!! I am an Autistic individual, trying to educate myself on the history of Ableism, and this has been helpful for my studies!!
Glad to be of assistance!
This was really interesting but obviously disturbing.
You Presented this very well. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you Lisa, it's not easy to watch, but I think the story deserves to better known.
Heartbreaking…my daughter is autistic and it devastates me to know how she would’ve been treated, and subsequently put to death. I can’t imagine how those families felt. Can’t stop the tears. Thank you for sharing!
It is a shocking story.
To think some weirdo neo nazis in 2024 who claim they are Christian will stay silent on killing disabled kids. The nazis were VERY un Christian. Yes also obviously the communists were. Sickening that anyone can say it's ok what they did or try deny it
Hello Graeme, I have suspected for a few years that my mother's older sister, Ursula Scheuermann, was a victim of Aktion T4. She was born in 1935 with a brain injury. My brother recently confirmed that our grandmother had also believed that Ursula was one of the early victims. We were told as children that 'everyone in the childrens' home had disappeared'. I have been thinking a lot about Ursula recently - a long lost photo of her has recently resurfaced, showing a much loved little girl with her adoring grandmother. I wonder if there is any way of getting her name added to the holocaust memorial?
Thank you for sharing this Sabina. There are good records for many hospitals so if you know the area she was born, it might be possible to locate the hospital. There is an Aktion T4 memorial and information centre in Berlin that might be able to help (Tiergartenstraße 4, 10785 Berlin).
@@professorgraemeyorston I hope the nazis didnt burn the records.My ancestory prior to world war II in poland has been burned and untracable according to my parents.Im polish in origin.My great grandfather came to the USA from poland before WW I.
Thank you
As a 🇬🇧 nurse
I worry about.how easily people succumb to mass formation psychosis.
We are on the brink
It will happen again in my lifetime
But NEVER from my hands x
Thanks Karen
Never forget!
Thank you. And I appreciate the lack of music.
Thank you. It's a harrowing thing to watch but a story that needs to be remembered.
I forgot
Thanks for this video! I understand must have been very difficult to research and create the video! Thanks for your work! It honors the victims and brings recognition so it doesn’t happen again!
Thank you, it is easy to think we have heard all about the Holocaust before and there is nothing new to learn, but I wasn't aware of the scale of the killings of people with mental disorders, so it was a difficult video to do.
Unbelievable that some of those doctors got away with it and continued to practice medicine.
I was shocked when I found that out.
They still are. California has a secret
That's gonna f*** me when I play the Medic in Team Fortress 2. No doubt he lost his medical license by being the fall guy.
Different versions of these types of programs are ongoing today - in various countries.
I'd love to hear more - which countries?
@@professorgraemeyorston The U.S. for one - forced sterilizations and abuse in immigration detention centers, denial of medical treatment for certain populations, the wide disparitys during the pandemic, ( look at Indian reservations) what goes on in nursing homes, how the mentally ill are often criminalized and too many police departments aren't equipped to handle them, the poor elderly often witheld life- saving medical care and overdosed on morphine etc. to provide hospital beds for those less likely to linger, U.S. politicians actually using the words "useless eaters" ( coined by the Nazis) when referring to the disabled... those receiving SSI and SSDI ( some are even veterans!) forced to survive on up to 125% below the poverty level!
@@963ag Thanks Annette. I agree that the risk of descending even further to the Nazi policies is never too far away, however civilised a nation may think it is.
@@professorgraemeyorston😢Plus it's scary if people were to stop & realize that the government has a record of all of us who are currently on disability, including the fact that they know exactly where all of us live, including all of our disabled veterans.
@@963agthey often use the term “prawns and shrimps” for “bottom of the pile people”( naturally they’re just talking on reflection of course😂)
This is good work and lot of hard work is obvious….)
Such a unique and tragic chapter of history and scary to see how doctors contributed to misery and closing comments sums it well…)
Thank you 😊
Thanks Farhana
Doctor contributed to the Covid scare - so it is nothing new, particularly for German "doctors"!
strangely enough goebels had a dibbled foot, but they didn't sterilize him or send him to concentration camp.
Strange that! Hitler probably had Parkinson's disease but I bet no-one suggested carting him off!
a most excellent point.
also the holocaust was like a vortex swallowing everything in its path and wouldn't have stopped till every human on earth was dead except for hitler all by himself.
Hitler was Jewish too... yup! I have always found that people hate the most that which they are themselves. Reverse racism, ie hating one's own people. It's more common than most people think!
@@professorgraemeyorstonTMH God has something far better planned for them in hades😊😂🎉
My prayer is that should this type of evil ever raise its ugly head again, that enough good men will rise up and end it.
I hope so too.
Dr. Graeme, wow just wow.
I love that you don't use rose-coloured glasses to view our collective past, even if the resulting true picture is not a pretty one.
Thanks SusAnne. I think it is important to be aware of the darker aspects of human nature, especially now when Europe is at war again, so that we can truly appreciate all the good in people too.
It is a difficult subject. I appreciate you stressing how many ordinary people were part of this horror, because we are too quick to say, "It couldn't happen 'here'." We have the 20/20 hindsight given by history, but aren't so good at recognizing events as they unfold gradually attached to pretty words, and "for the good of the people." You approached this subject with great respect and regard for the victims that is obviously heartfelt. Thank you.
Thank you.
This was so interesting . Scary and sad to think things like that happened
Thanks Wendy, and not so long ago!
Thank you for bravely and sensitively exploring this darkest corner of history’s inhumane treatment of our most vulnerable and easily exploited people.
Thanks for watching.
This was excellent. I’ve been binge-watching you for 7 hours if you include my comments. My husband is fortunate enough to work internationally, from the Far East to Africa to many countries in Europe. We try to connect the European jobs so we can go where we want in between, (for the 15 years leading up to Covid, and then becoming bedridden as I described in my Frida video comment tonight) which is everywhere Holocaust related. If we’ve been to a city, we’ve seen every single thing in it, down to the last eagle shadow on a stucco wall. I have a bookcase of WW2 books including “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.” The day we went to Dachau it was freezing cold, which is when it’s best to travel. First of all, we have coats and everything else warm, and the prisoners were always cold, so I can stand it for a couple of hours. Second, we were the ONLY ones there. I can’t put into words how it feels to stand in front of those trenches where so many were shot, or in the particular rooms I don’t even want to name because then I won’t be able to see. All alone. Other camps, 5X to Munich, Nurmberg, Berlin, Berchtesgaden, and countless more. So many cities not known for Nazi history have Documentation Centers where I happily read all day while my husband works. Thank you for reading my comments today; and thank you for providing captions so I can understand you!
This is coming back in Canada. Some of the practices about abortion have been in line with this mindset all this time. Scary.
Truly shocking.
The arrogance of these people was off the charts, deciding who could live or not. Much like our corrupt politicians today!!
The way things are going here in BrazilI can uderstand how could só many People support such a thing. And as a disabled I'm afraid history repeats.
Yes, these are worrying times!
Thank you , Professor Yorston ; I can not understand why these educated , and intelligent people , became monsters. This is what concerns me that we too can also become cruel , and despise people , who are dependent on us for their care, support.and well being. I can't imagine hurting another even if the circumstances allowed for such heinous crimes. We must never forget this time in history. By repeatedly sharing the horrific crimes against humanity , we are reminded of their fate. And we are shocked , and still cannot fathom the suffering of the people condemned to suffer from the Nazis , and others who did nothing.
I think it is all too easy for civilised countries to descend into barbarism.
Many women abort their babies once they're told the child will have Down's syndrome
@@professorgraemeyorstonSad but also both true & scary.
Thank U for this very well researched video; a new subscriber from SW. Oklahoma, U. S. A.
Hello Graeme,
Not sure if I can watch this..
My German professor at uni (mid 1980's), Frau Bergman once told me, her disabled cousin, a girl, was taken away and she never saw her again. I was friends with the German language assistant, Klaus. His mother met Hitler in the German Youth..
Anyway..
Regards,
Rachel
NB. May I possibly contact you in the future regarding a situation where a person I know, I now realise, has been kept home as a slave their whole life (I worked out they have two learning disabilities (one rare) which were never diagnosed..).
This is a genuine situation.
Many thanks.
Sadly, Aktion T4 is not ancient history - it is within living memory. Regarding you situation - I cannot give professional advice through this medium - but depending on which country you live in there should be Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults laws and services to request help from.
Thanks for providing the Journal article sources in your description. It is most helpful. I think everyone should provide the sources for their youtube videos for further research.
Although some people have doubted my credentials but I am a real professor and citing sources is second nature!
Good doco.
Thanks.
Thank you for this episode
Glad you found it of interest.
Hard video... but so informative! Thank You ❤
Thank you, not as easy watch, I know.
Just discovered your channel! Fascinating ✌️💕🌻
Welcome to the channel!
Thank u for showing the kusserow family, they were faithful to Jehovah, 2 of the brothers were put to death.
Thanks Rhonda
Unbelievable!!! How cruel were they? My dad was born with a hair lip and cleft pallet, so this shocked me even more 😢
I been studying this stuff for last 20+ years and have known about this program for some time. Also visited Auschwitz Conctration Camp back in October of 2022 for second time in my life. I also have Cerebral Palsy. My mother said something to me on my Frist trip to the Camp. While we stood by Block ten where experiments where carried out. I said. They would have Killed me as soon as they knew I had Cerebral Palsy. In the Gas chamber or shot me on the spot. If I was lucky. My mother said "she would have been killed" I realise now that the true victory over this is 1.never forgetting it happened 2. For every person that is born with some form of disability. Or Jew that is born into this world after the war is a small victory over anything that is Anti-life or Nazism as a whole. Respect to those that fought for freedom Against Nazism.
PS not all Germans where Nazis
Thanks Craig, I agree. My own trip to Auschwitz was one of the most moving experiences of my life.
I would've been on the docket for them...i'm Bipolar(fmr. known as manic depressive),and so would my brother...who had cp,Asperger's syndrome,and syncope.
It is a terrible thought. They killed approximately 0.3% of the total population but tended to focus of those in institutional care, if you were able to work or fight - they had other uses for you.
Such an informative video being easy to understand even after the first listen. This helped me thoroughly understand the T4 Program whilst under 20 mins. Nevertheless still a much disturbing topic to cover. Your work is very much appreciated!
Glad it was helpful!
That Catholic bishop had balls.
He was one of the few who was brave enough to openly criticise the Nazi regime.
However as a Catholic and someone whose father was German ,I think he should have done more.And certainly Pope Pious XI should have denounced Hitler.
This was a horrible period in modern history. It would however, be interesting to see studies on present day disability rates in Germany today. Are their rates lower, or the same, as countries who did not practice this sick practice.
We need to remember, that both America & Russia, raced to get the German scientists who tested gravity & other barbaric test of space travel, on the expendible victims of concentration camps into their employ as well. This is why both countries were ahead in the space race. Nothing to be proud of surely !
Very true.
I have autism and A.D.H.D and I’m German and this hurts and makes me sick
It was a terrible time.
Thanks for the video. We shall never forget. Crazy what human beings are able to do to other human beings. Beyond anything a wild animal could ever do.
But one question: I think you said the UK was one of just countries which didn't do forced sterilization due to eugenics. Is this actually true? This was some decades later, but as far as I know, the legendary Alan Turing had to undergo this because of his homosexuality. So it has been a case in the UK? Maybe you can help me out
Interesting question - his "treatment" wasn't motivated by eugenics ideas but by ideas that homosexuality was an illness that could be treated.
Brutal......
....but true.
So many images flashed across the screen for such a short period is disracting. A warning for those with even mild vestibular-like symptoms would be helpful. The commentary was excellent, but I had to look away from the screen to avoid dizziness.
Sorry about that, I have tried to make the videos dynamic and visually rich but I'll add a warning.
I hate say this people will never admit that this how Americans treated the disabled
Lots of countries did the same and "voluntary" euthanasia for mental health problems seems to be on the increase internationally.
They caused alot of suffering. How many million severely disabled don't exist today or won't ever because of this.
They certainly did.
They were also put on sedatives and starved to death. It was pure Evil.
I find it hard to understand how a cultured and civilised nation could descend into such barbarism so quickly.
@@professorgraemeyorston Thats the worrying thing. The Germans were advanced in arts, philosophy,medicine and culture in general. I think that if it could happen in Germany, it could happen in the UK,USA and any other country. Good video on such a grim subject matter.
I wonder: if the german “final solution” had not tarnished the reputation of the eugenics movements, would forced sterilization of the mentally ill, and eugenics movements, continued worldwide
Gosh, what a unnerving question!
I learn more horrendous things that happened every single day. I’m sick. I’m also in prayer that God heals this land so this never happens again. Never forget and never stop teaching this
Thank you, it's easy learning about this, but it is important that we don't forget.
I love how you Christians ignore the fact that if your God exists, he watches people commit to these atrocities and does absolutely nothing...making him a salacious bloodthirsty maniacal beast!
THOSE AKTIONS PROGRAMS WERE A DEEP SECRET
Dear Professor, at 16:15 you show a picture of the large Kusserow family while mentioning ordinary people becoming Hitlers executioners. I don't know why you displayed their photo at this point, nor do I want to say anything that would question your knowledge or intentions, but in order to avoid confusion on anyone's part I would like to mention that the Kusserow family were Jehovah's Witnesses and never once compromised in the slightest with Hitlers regime. Two of the sons were "executed" by bullet and guillotine for this, and the mother and at least one daughter were interned in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Not one family member compromised during the whole time. A most interesting video on the subject is available on JW Broadcasting.
Yours Sincerely,
Matthew
Thank you Matthew, my intention was to find a picture of an ordinary family to make the point that everyone was at risk of being drawn into the Nazi regime's actions, not to imply that this family was in any way involved. I should have made this clearer and I apologise if I have caused offence.
BUT the Kiser had a grandchild with downs syndrome that lived into the 1980s. Its who your related to. She was sent to a special school. This was the child of the crown prince.
She probably survived because her family didn't try to hide her away in an institution.
They sent her to the " best" schools for people with developmental disabilities. She had downs syndrome. She was also "sub- human " but royal. As a mother of a child with disabilities it makes me want to scream.
Oh goodness what an awful awful end so very sad
It was a terrible period in human history.
Life unworthy of life
Chilling phrase!
@@professorgraemeyorston well us "useless eaters" are still rather nervous even after the election
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i would have been killed before I was about 8 and my teachers started to actualy see my potential, before that they sat me outside the classroom (in the 90s) because I didn't fit in with the class. even in the 90s it was only when they realised I was actualy ahead in my reading and maths etc. that they started egaging in actualy teaching me (but it was the 90s and being AFAB and autistic was not heared of much yet)
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It's extremely sad how much dangerous for the human race decided to play God through out human history.
Yes, I don't know who deserves greater blame, the politicians who instigated the programme or the doctors and nurses who carried it out.
why must WE NEVER FORGET WHEN SOCIETY IS DOING THE SAME THING AGAIN NOW... how are people trying to save others' lives and what is their meaning of happiness except to bring folks into a chopping block... A lot of others wear two faces and soon they probably will collide into each other
I agree that societies can very quickly descend into the barbarism exhibited by the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes.
Let's remember MANY states in the US practiced similar things prior to that being done in Germany under the 3rd Reich. In their eyes supporting people unable to work or produce for their entire life were considered 'useless eaters' as they cost the Country $$$$ to keep them alive.
Sterilisation yes, but not systematic murder.
Very distressing, but very interesting video, as always. While watching it, I kept wondering how nurses could just stand by and watch as the children and adults under their care were treated so inhumanely and killed. Surely, the nurses who cared for these children had to have had some doubts about it all? I will never understand how doctors could commit such acts, but then it was a different time and there was a propaganda machine in place, but still, I don't understand. Then again, I struggle to understand how anyone can get caught up in a cult and not notice that they are being used, abused and exploited. There is no real difference between the gov't of a country misleading its people (let's face it many of the people who were 'into' hitler, are no different from people all over the world who are 'into' trump or putin or that little guy in North Korea, just to name a few of the many) and a cult leader misleading groups of people, apart from the scale. People are people everywhere and there are always those who think in terms of "the other" as the enemy, the cause of all problems, etc. It is terrifying to think how relatively easy it is, as you say, to turn honest, decent people into worshipers of evil.
I agree that is the real lesson from the holocaust is how easy it is to turn a civilised nation into a murderous regime.
@eduardmedrea1930 Yes, I expect so, but it is still incomprehensible to me and quite terrifying.
@eduardmedrea1930 I am a nurse and totally disagree with your comment. There are only very few and that could be through burn out. I have been a nurse for 35 years and now work with disability clients I care for them as much as ever,
@@professorgraemeyorstonwell,. As I’ve been told “it’s a job tho innit”🤮
I am one of those useless eaters
There is plenty to go round!
@@professorgraemeyorston yes unfortunately it seldom gets to those who need it... It breaks my heart how most suffering and struggles these as are unnecessary if not for the will of those in power
Same here. I'm in the UK so I actually get called that - by medical staff. I had food and water withheld when I was in hospital - not for medical reasons. All since I became severely disabled.
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Finding out the cause of what happened in Germany in the 1930's will truly help our species find salvation
Video Bill Gates Palliative Health Care
I don't think he is quite in their league.
I know a lot of people are going hate me for saying this I am a former patient mental health facilities here in America to be honest psychiatrist I had never really paid much attention to understanding me but we're very fast to put newer newer diagnosis is on me to be able to give me more and more medications how it made me feel how the medications made me feel or understanding my situation I can see from my own experience punishing people because they have experiences and feel it's not right on any level and they send you a way to places where everywhere you go to and said facilities you have to walk in line I've seen staff get excited to basically manhandle patience I've been in facilities for 2 years at a time before I've seen a lot and experienced a lot in mental health facilities and the fact that I had no rights in any of it in my feelings and what I was going through was not ever really considered and that decisions were made by these people that still affect my life to this day to me is very very wrong
And the very fact of the matter is that psychiatrist get patients that they can put psychiatric medications into and create lifelong customers
This still goes on in America... Shit.
I have heard about forced sterilisations, but euthanasia?
@@professorgraemeyorston Here in the UK they do euthanasia of the disabled, the poor and the old. The government started an absolute hate campaign against the disabled in about 2014, but the hatred towards the poor and the disabled existed long before. I became severely disabled in 2021, the abuse I've suffered since then - from medical staff and other authorities - needs to be seen to be believed! I had it before because I've always been assumed to be poor (no idea why!), but the abuse has gone through the roof since I became disabled!
They've tried their utmost to kill me off with heavy tranquilizers that stop breathing and stop the heart, which is the method they use here (check out the Midazolam Murders) - the more I refused, the more abuse and threats, and refusal of all medical treatment, I got!
Please note that I am physically disabled, not mentally.
I've been told for the last 20 years that I'm "not good enough to live", a "useless eater" and a "parasite". Now I'm also being told that I'm a "useless c r ! p p l e ".
I've lost count how many times I wanted to apologize for still being alive!
@@professorgraemeyorstononly a few states in the US offer physician assisted suicide, however it requires the full consent of the person requesting it. Also they have to be of sound mind and not hindered by any cognitive disability. Physical assisted suicide without the requester’s approval is outlawed, however families can make a final determination to end the life of a loved one who is clinically deceased and on life support.
Very good video. Please do Hitler. I'd like to know what was wrong with his brain/mind.
The Germans went to my native Sweden to learn all about Eugenics.
I was fortunate enough to get to see the Holocaust Museum in Israel. If you want to call it fortunate or lucky to see one of those
I visited Auschwitz and as you say it is not an easy thing to do, but strangely life-affirming.
The evil man is capable of! Warning from history.
It beggars belief - but it happened!
Could been the mustard gas from WWI
as one whi woudl have been a subject for the process, I don't find this aspect of history a shock as the vulnerable and different are largely hunted and hounded, distrusted and despised in modern western society, and subject to economic and social apartheid. There resides in many folks minds the will do get staisfaction from bullying and disdain and feeling erroneously superior. Just as people take from the future and degrade the present to live selfishly uinsustainable materialistic lives , so they take from fellow man to featehr their nest. Just my experience, education and comprehension ...
Why did they kill them with painful chemicals? I'm sure that they had plenty of morphine or any type of drug that would put them to sleep forever without causing them pain at all.
Cleaning chemicals were cheaper.
Because they didn't see them as human, just like those parents who called their own child a monster and wanted him dead.
Natur takes care of all that in anything living if we were not constantly interfering
And there is no daubt Nature knows best
i think eugenetics is very logical. if you want to progresss as a species you make sure the weakest individuals cant procrastinate. and its even better when they are dead because they are just using up resources. im not saying that i agree but its certainly logical
It depends on how you define progress.
@@professorgraemeyorston well, imagine all the resources spent annually on the weakest individuals who could never contribute anything to society and imagine spending those resources on research and development to make the world a better place. humans getting stronger, smarter and richer every generation
@@vmvdstwo flaws to your argument.
1) You assume people with disabilities cannot contribute to the future of society. I wonder how many of the "eccentric" scientists would be euthanized as children
2) What about acquired disability? We don't remove that through genetic screening.
By saying euthanasia is logical the end point would be my family would not exist. Yet we have contributed as health professionals for 5 generations despite disabilities
4:29 Britain started eugenics? Yeesh! That means Ozwell E. Spencer is real. Resident Evil vibes anyone?
Eugenics is an idea, British academics were among the first to write about it.
Perhaps this way will realize the danger of a euthanasia law
The rich Elite people Were the ones who wanted to see this happen
Hitler was elected. All sections of society allowed this to happen.
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Sounds like a bunch of bs, slander.
You don't believe in the holocaust?
@@professorgraemeyorston how do you people always have these very elaborate accusations just always loaded up in the arsenal, it's comical, every time without fail. I hadn't even thought about "the holocaust" . Tbh Idc for it, we have a whole genocide over here to worry about.
@@professorgraemeyorston I dont believe in the holocaust as if it were some sort of higher power, if that's what you mean. But either way it's just totally irrelevant to I am completely unbiased in the topic. Now don't get me started on those dam Jews tho, and the mexicans.
@@mk-apache6161 No, you dont understand. Aktion T4 is just a part of the Holocaust. Because as most people falsely think Holocaust is not only about the jews. Its about targeting the enemies of the Reich, meaning that the disabled, Jews, Soviets, Poles, gypsies etc. Were targeted as their blood was "diluted". It was part of their ideology and they did it intentionally
Canada.
I understand that efforts are being made to criminalise forced sterilization in the Canadian Senate
Yeah, that monsterst stil today inzist alraund world, so big careful😳
And to think canada has brought this back.
The Canada medical system has already began "cost-cutting" with the lives of the poor and sick.
Cost cutting is part of most countries' medical systems, but I'm not aware of any country that is doing anything like the T4 programme.
@@professorgraemeyorston
Canada recently legalized euthanasia, and to nobodys suprise it is already being pushed as theconly treatment bring offered to the sick and poor and disabled
Just recently the canadian va told a veteran with ptsd to deepthroat a shotgun.
Canada medical staff are encouraged to try to convince sick people to off themselves if its the cheapest option. Often to the point of refusing to give them conventialion treatment.
Previously you needed a illness, albeit a very minor one - they killed one guy for hearing loss. But the gubbmint in canada is looking to expand this to include mental illness.
Euthanasia is now the 6th leading cuase of death in canada, with arounf 10,000 people killed this year. If you think at least sone of those people were not coerced into doing it to save the system monry you need to replace the captain of your brainship becuase he is drunk at the wheel.
This will certainly be expanded until doctors can make the decision for you.
@@ponythroat1405 Wow, I had no idea Canada has gone so far down this road, I agree that it's a worrying trend.
UK too, it's in full swing!
@@professorgraemeyorston The UK is killing the poor and the disabled in their thousands!