T4 Program (25 Jul 1939 Jahr – 24 Aug 1941 Jahr)

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70,273 disabled peoples gassed from September 1, 1939 to August 24, 1941. Hitler suspends the T4 program after public outcry. Killings continue to occur in a less formalized manner until the end of the war. Close to 300,000 total people will be killed by the T4 program between 1939-1945.

Leaders: Karl Brandt, Phillip Bouhler, Christian Wirth

"Those patients who are destined to be killed are transported away from home to a distant asylum presumably in order to protect those who deliberately kill those poor people, members of our families, from this legal punishment. Some illness is then given as the cause of death. Since the corpse has been burnt straight away, the relatives and also the criminal police are unable to establish whether the illness really occurred and what the cause of death was." -Cardinal von Galen

“The direct killing of an innocent person because of mental or physical defects is not allowed...against natural and positive Divine law.” (Vatican Statement on euthanasia)

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