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To: TaxRelief
Check out this excerpt from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum :

""EUTHANASIA" KILLINGS

Forced sterilization in Germany was the forerunner of the systematic killing of the mentally ill and the handicapped. In October 1939, Hitler himself initiated a decree which empowered physicians to grant a "mercy death" to "patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health." The intent of the socalled "euthanasia" program, however, was not to relieve the suffering of the chronically ill. The Nazi regime used the term as a euphemism: its aim was to exterminate the mentally ill and the handicapped, thus "cleansing" the Aryan race of persons considered genetically defective and a financial burden to society."

Link here:
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/hndcp.htm
307 posted on 10/29/2003 7:27:16 PM PST by PeyersPatches (I have intestinal fortitude)
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To: PeyersPatches
That link sent chills down my spine. I had a friend in the eighties who was a WWII Vet. He was at one of the concentration camps when the prisoners were freed. He took a lot of pictures of naked, piled up bodies, bodies with skin removed, and sick skinny prisoners. It was a much more horrific photo album than what most people have seen of these death camps.

Observing the way their bodies were treated, with such utter disrespect, has left a lasting impression on my heart. Those pictures spoke volumes about the risks associated with downplaying the value of every individual life.
318 posted on 10/29/2003 7:39:29 PM PST by TaxRelief (Ask me about the connection between Socialism, Communism, Drug Warlords and Vodka.)
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