Word: euthanasias
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...massive, painful effort by West Germans to purge the nation of its Nazi past by finally facing the facts of how and why 4,000,000 Jews, Poles, Russians and gypsies perished at Auschwitz. Other grim facts from Hitler's hideous era were emerging at the euthanasia trial in Limburg, where Hans Hefelmann, 58, an agronomist, was in the dock, charged with complicity in the Nazis' monstrous euthanasia scheme...
Even the Senile. Hefelmann testified that his euthanasia group, dubbed the "Reich Working Committee for Cure and Care Institutions," was headquartered at No. 4 Tiergartenstrasse in Berlin, a title that for secrecy's sake was shortened to "T-4." There was housed the massive bureaucracy that set up carbon monoxide chambers at an in sane asylum and other isolated institutions around Germany-all dedicated to the task of eliminating the weak from Hitler's society. Questionnaires went out to every mental hospital in the nation; doctors were required to designate for T-4 all schizophrenics, mongoloid idiots, microcephalies...
...Jews. In 1940, Hitler appointed Dr. Werner Heyde, a pale, bespectacled SS major and former Wiirzburg University Medicine lecturer, supervisor of "Operation Mercy Killing." Until courageous protests from German church leaders forced the Nazis to curtail the program in 1941, Heyde and a staff of "selectors" in his euthanasia task force killed more than 100,000 mental defectives, including many who were only senile or epileptic...
...contrasts papal silence with the action of Denmark's King Christian, who helped forestall Nazi persecution by vowing to wear the Star of David if his country's Jews had to, and with Munster's Bishop Clemens August von Galen, whose fiery sermons ended the Nazi euthanasia campaign in his city...
...last year, three lost money. Faced with such harsh reality, the owners of the city's papers tried a drastic solution. Last winter two of the four dailies were summarily put to death. The survivors were left with separate morning and afternoon monopolies (TIME, Jan. 12). This double euthanasia drew cries of dismay from all over the U.S. press, and the U.S. Department of Justice threatened an investigation. But by last week it was clear that Los Angeles' drastic solution was working...