Gnadentod?I was trying to remember the name of Hitler’s decree allowing doctors to legally withhold medical care or directly kill babies based on an approval by two judging doctors due to disabling reasons.
I can’t find it anywhere and I can’t remember the name, argh!
I was looking for something in regards to the recent regulations passed for the Netherlands.Gnadentod?
Unlebenswürdig?
I don’t think that there was an equivalent of something like, say, the famous “Nacht und Nebel Erlaß” (Night and Fog Decree) a direct order by Hitler (“Führer Befehl”) but rather, as was quite common (usual) a “Führerermächtigung” (in other words, he said “Do it” and whoever he was talking to went out and set it all up).Much of the German euthanasia legislation was pre-Hitler. I recall something on unworthy lives and useless mouths, but can’t find the reference.
I don’t think that there was an equivalent of something like, say, the famous “Nacht und Nebel Erlaß” (Night and Fog Decree) a direct order by Hitler (“Führer Befehl”) but rather, as was quite common (usual) a “Führerermächtigung” (in other words, he said “Do it” and whoever he was talking to, or answering a request from, just went out and set it all up).I was looking for something in regards to the recent regulations passed for the Netherlands.
Somewhere along the way, I picked up information that Hitler required two doctors to approve killing infants. I do not recall where the information came from and I can’t find any info on the net with that perspective.
Infanticide: the first legal killings
Once German doctors accepted social eugenics, the forcible sterilisation of the “unfit” became widespread. The next step was infanticide, which required the willing cooperation of doctors and midwives, who reported every birth of a child with disabilities to the authorities.
Read more here…life.org.nz/euthanasiaabouteuthanasiahistoryglobal6.htmThe child was sent to an institution - supposedly for treatment. A brief report on the child was then sent to Berlin where three doctors judged the child, in almost every case to be “unworthy of life.” After killing the child (with the usual ‘cause of death’ listed as pneumonia), the body was delivered to the family, minus the brain.
“T-4” wasn’t the name of a ‘decree’, which was the question that the op posed.We covered this on our website. It was the T-4 programme. Read more here…life.org.nz/euthanasiaabouteuthanasiahistoryglobal6.htm