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Nazi euthanasia program

The Nazi euthanasia program that began in 1939 and targeted disabled people.

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Jan 17, 2026
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What was the Nazi T4 euthanasia program and how did it relate to later mass‑murder methods?

Aktion T4 was a state‑directed Nazi “euthanasia” program that identified, transported and murdered tens of thousands of people with mental illness and disabilities beginning in 1939; it used medicaliz...

Jan 18, 2026
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How did it escalate from T4 to the final solution in Nazi Germany?

Aktion T4 began in 1939 as a state-directed "euthanasia" program to eliminate people judged "life unworthy of life," and it became both an ideological laboratory and a technical proving ground whose m...

Jan 18, 2026
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Did the German people protest death camps?

Most Germans did not mount widespread public protests against the Nazi death camps, but there were important, documented exceptions where Germans—often in specific social circumstances—did openly resi...

Jan 17, 2026

How did German churches and public protests influence the official suspension of Aktion T4 in 1941?

The public suspension of Aktion T4 on 24 August 1941 followed a wave of ecclesiastical denunciations and growing public alarm—most famously the sermons of Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen—which ma...

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