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...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...
...Hefelmann was nabbed early this year along with three other former executives in the project called Operation
Mercy Killing. Two of the defendants committed suicide (TIME, Feb. 21); another, Dr. Gerhard Bohne, fled to Argentina, where last week he was fighting extradition; and so Hefelmann alone was left to tell the court the reasons for exterminating hordes of Germans who were even slightly mentally or physically defective...
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...
...executors have never been able to understand why they were put on trial. Explained Hefelmann, who personally was accused of helping to gas 70,000 adults and 3,000 children: "I saw everything from a purely ethical standpoint. An honest affirmation of mercy killings should be seen as a sentiment of Christian sympathy...
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