Nazi euthanasia program
Within the broad scope of the Holocaust, the Nazi euthanasia program had medical personnel evaluate hundreds of thousands of people to see if they met Nazi criteria that categorized them as "life unworthy of life". If so, the people were killed, either by direct lethal means or starvation.
Pre-1939
WWII period
The Nuremberg Military Tribunal medical case indictment,dealt with actions between September 1939 and April 1945, which was under Allied jurisdiction. The incictment described as "the systematic and secret execution of the aged, insane, incurably ill, of deformed children, and other persons, by gas, lethal injections, and diverse other means in nursing homes, hospitals, and asylums. Such persons were regarded as "useless eaters" and a burden to the German war machine. The relatives of these victims were informed that they died from natural causes, such as heart failure. German doctors involved in the "euthanasia" program were also sent to Eastern occupied countries to assist in the mass extermination of Jews."[1] Charges were placed against Kurt Blomer, Viktor Brack, Karl Brandt, and Waldemar Hoven. Blomer was acquitted; Brack, Karl Brandt, and Hoven]] were convicted.
References
- ↑ , The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings, Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals under Control Council Law No. 10. October 1946–April 1949.