need to name: the victims of Nazi 'Euthanasia' of the mentally and physically disabled and ill 1939-1945
TitleThe need to name: the victims of Nazi 'Euthanasia' of the mentally and physically disabled and ill 1939-1945
Author
Call number940.5318/0533
Object number10245b
Place of publicationBerlin, Germany
PublisherMetropol
Year of publication
2019
Physical descriptionpp49-82
MaterialArticle
Series titleInternational Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (Ed.) series Vol 5
IHRA series, Vol.5.
IHRA series, Vol.5.
ISBN9783863314590
NotesArticle from the book 'Mass murder of people with disabilities and the Holocaust' pp49-82
Description
On August 5, 1929, Hitler proclaimed that killing several hundred thousand of the weakest would strengthen the German race. The consequences were devastating in terms of mass sterilization of 360,000 to 400,000 persons, and the killing of a quarter of a million victims in the "euthanasia" program