Context (translated from German) "The statement in this poster that disabled people are of no value, only cause high costs, but do not bring any benefit, bears witness to one of the most disgusting chapters of the Nazi era. It is the systematic killing of women, men and children with mental illnesses, mental or physical disabilities, who were considered 'unworthy of life' according to the National Socialist racial and ethnic community ideology. Between 1939 and 1941, around 70,000 patients from sanatoriums and nursing homes in the six killing centers in Bernburg, Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Hademar, Hartheim and Pirna-Sonnenschein were murdered by gas.
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Public protests, e.g. by the Bishop of Münster, Count von Galen, then led to the end of the extermination program. The personnel from the killing centers, who were now specialized in killing people, were transferred to the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps in order to participate in the 'final solution to the Jewish question'. "
http://museen-sh.de/Objekt/DE-MUS-067310/lido/2015-26
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Supplementary "The mass murder of helpless people begins in the Grafeneck killing center and other facilities.
After the Second World War was unleashed, the Nazi regime ordered the murder of ' hereditary and mentally ill ' who had been classified as ' unworthy of life ' . Because this crime - euphemistically referred to by the Nazis as ' euthanasia ' - was organized from a villa in Berlin's Tiergartenstrasse 4, it is still referred to as ' Action T4 ' to this day . As early as autumn 1939, experts used registration forms from all German sanatoriums and nursing homes to determine which patients were considered ' unworthy of life ' according to the Nazi definition.have to apply. The number determined is around 70,000. The actual murder operation began in January 1940. The first killing center that was selected and converted for this purpose was Schloss Grafeneck in Württemberg - others soon followed. The people whose death sentences have been sealed are brought to the institution in buses and brutally murdered in gas chambers disguised as shower rooms. The bodies are cremated. The true cause of death is kept secret so as not to arouse public dislike. (al)"
https://www.baden18-45.de/filter/1940-01-vernichtung-lebensunwerten-lebens-der-beginn-der-euthanasie-aktion-t4/