There were a lot of dark days and many terrible things that happened during WWII. One of them is the Aktion T4 program, a memo signed in October 1939, which granted permission to physicians to conduct euthanasia on people who have incurable or terminal diseases.
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Earlier, in May 1939, Hitler had received a request from the parents of Gerhard Kretschmar, who was born blind and missing limbs. The Kretschmars wanted to kill their child. Hitler authorized Brandt to have Gerhard killed. Records show Gerhard died on July 15 of “heart weakness.” He was five months old.
Historians look at the murder of Gerhard Kretshmar as the beginning of Aktion T4, the Nazi “euthanasia” program. From January 1940 until the end of 1941, when Aktion T4 officially ended, 70,000 people with disabilities were murdered at six sites: Brandenburg, Bernburg, Grafeneck, Hadamar, Hartheim, and Pirna-Sonnenstein.
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Source: neatorama