7 Comments

Viktor Brack, top Nazi doctor executed for crimes against humanity at Nuremberg:

"The needle belongs in the hands of the doctor."

Useless Eaters: Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany

Catholic Culture, 2002

https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7019

"Those designated for extermination were transferred to one of 28 facilities, among them several of Germany's oldest and most respected hospitals, where they were housed in specially designated killing wards. The Nazi authorities took great care to inform parents that their children would be safe in special wards at the clinics, which would "provide all available therapeutic interventions made possible by recent scientific discoveries". These assurances were always given with the caveat that such endeavors were also fraught with mortal risks.

There is little doubt that hospital staff were complicit in these endeavors."

...

"The genius of this form of homicide was the normally expected availability of these medications in hospitals. Also, some poisons killed indirectly over short periods of time by precipitating fatal medical complications that were then reported as natural causes of death. There is evidence that physicians exchanged information about the efficacy of various medications when they visited each other's institutions or met at the Reich Ministry of Health in Berlin.

The murder of the children also followed a particular administrative and logistical course. As the condition of the child deteriorated following the fatal dose, the parents would be informed that their child was seriously ill, with a quick follow-up via a standardized letter announcing the child's death before parents could arrange to visit their sick child. This letter always noted that the child had died suddenly and unexpectedly of one of a number of diseases. Popular choices included brain edema and appendicitis. The favorite cause of death, however, proved to be communicable disease, which necessitated immediate cremation to avoid the danger of an institutional epidemic."

...

"The logistical necessities involved in killing large numbers of asylum inmates were also problematic within Germany itself.

...

A human experiment on the effectiveness of the gas was conducted in January 1940. A number of senior officials responsible for Aktion T-4, including many asylum directors and several others who would later make their names infamous at Auschwitz, gathered at a defunct prison near Berlin. Approximately 20 naked asylum inmates were herded into a prototypical gas chamber by psychiatric nurses. The enthusiastic onlookers watched closely as the inmates died from carbon monoxide poisoning. Eight further inmates were administered lethal injections, but when the poison had little immediate effect, these inmates were gassed as well. Buoyed by the dreadful success he had just witnessed, Viktor Brack, one of the top Aktion T-4 officials, victoriously declared the importance of using physicians to administer the gas through his oft-repeated motto: "The needle belongs in the hand of the doctor"

...

"Most patients' fears were allayed by these seemingly routine medical procedures, which they had all undergone many times before."

...

"Concocted causes of death included the now familiar list: communicable diseases such as meningitis, which was possible in people of all ages; pneumonia, a common cause of death secondary to other serious diseases; and cases of stroke, a favored sham diagnosis among the elderly."

...

There is little evidence that asylum directors openly opposed the killing of their patients. However, some questioned the legality of the program, and others deliberately avoided meetings that would have given them no choice but to become personally involved."

FF - If history doesn't repeat then it sure does rhyme.

Expand full comment

Speak now or forever hold your peace comes to mind. When will the majority speak up for themselves?

Expand full comment

These bastards make Pol Pot look like a saint.

Expand full comment

I often said from the beginning of the rollout of the bioweapon jabs in every country...that it was the equivalent of 'death row' in Texas. Except people were voluntarily and being coerced to line up for the lethal injection without having to be taken to Texas.

Expand full comment

Gee a bullet! I've always thought to myself "A good walk in the bush during hunting season and getting a stray in the head"!

That would be too good for the administrators of "Death"! I

believe they should go the midazolam way!

Expand full comment