Tag: Euthanasia
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The extermination of the incurably ill and the mentally defective prompted the most effective episcopal protest against the actions of the Nazi regime
It was, in fact, the extermination of the incurably ill and the mentally defective that prompted the most effective episcopal protest against the actions of the Nazi regime. In a sermon at the St. Lamberti Church at Munster, Cardinal Galen publicly revealed the facts of the top-secret euthanasia programme, and cried out: ‘Woe unto the…
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Rather than medical killing being subsumed to war, the war ‘itself was subsumed to the vast biomedical vision of which “euthanasia” was a part.’
The genetic and racial health or ‘purity’ of the Volk was as integral and inseparable a part of the scheme for eastern conquest as the destruction of Bolshevism, the desire for Lebensraum or the drive for raw materials, a master thread in a closely woven comprehensively Germanic ‘system’. At the psychic level it was probably…
