Holocaust: disabled people

In the late 1930s and throughout World War II, physicians acting with and without the acquiescence of the Nazi government systematically killed their severely disabled and chronically ill mental patients. The officially sanctioned killing program begun in 1939 was called 'euthanasie' although most of its victims were neither terminally ill nor in unbearable pain. Over the course of the offical program, more than 200,000 German citizens met their death at the hands of their physicians