Memorial to German Euthanasia Victims

[50yroldTOBfan]

"…But we too have accepted the idea that there is such a thing as an unlivable life. Indeed, in the Netherlands, babies born with serious or terminal disabilities are killed in their cribs by doctors.

“In Belgium and the Netherlands, people with serious mental illnesses are euthanized–to widespread applause.”

"All of this reminds me of the words of Nuremberg Medical Investigator Leo Alexander, published in 1949 in the New England Journal of Medicine:

“Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of the physicians. It started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived…”

nationalreview.com/human-exceptionalism/387110/memorial-german-euthanasia-victims-wesley-j-smith

 

[jeannetherese]

From the article:

" It started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as life not worthy to be lived.

This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted and finally all non-Germans. But it is important to realize that the infinitely small wedged-in lever from which this entire trend of mind received its impetus was the attitude toward the nonrehabilitable sick…"

Thank you for sharing. I found the title somewhat confusing as the video link does not currently work and there is no image of a memorial or discussion of such. Perhaps the article itself was meant to be the memorial?