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`Knauer’ child, who had been born on 20 February 1939, blind, with one leg and part of one arm missing, and who was described as an “idiot.”

Brandt testified at his post-war Nürnberg trial he had been instructed that if the facts provided by the child’s father proved to be correct, he was to inform the physicians in Hitler’s name that ““euthanasia”” could be carried out – which it was, on 25 July 1939.

. When we objected that this would mean condemning our patients to a slow but certain death by starvation, they carefully began to sound out how the Home Mission would react if the state were to contemplate the elimination of certain categories of sick person in wartime, given that food supplies, once imports dried up, would no longer suffice to feed the entire population.”

survey carried out in the 1920s of the parents of severely handicapped children

“A number of parents expressed the view: `If only you had done it (i.e., ““euthanasia””) and then  told us that our child had died from an illness.’ There is a lesson for us there. We need not suppose that we cannot carry out any salutary measure without the consent of the sovereign people.”

80% of the relatives of those murdered by the programme were in agreement with the decision, 10% spoke out against it, and 10%

Civic Forum

Civic Forum, the heart of Czechoslovakia's democratic movement, was led by Vaclav Havel

his plays were banned from Czechoslovak theaters, and in 1977, he was sentenced to four and a half years of hard labor

Charter 77, a civic initiative created in 1977

imprison its members and ban the Charter 77 document.

one man recalls that his grandfather, a university lecturer, was reported to the authorities for referring to his students as "ladies and gentlemen" rather than "comrades."

November 25 and 26 drew an estimated crowd of nearly 750,000 people

Prime Minister Ladislav Adamec

November 27, a reported 75% of the Czech population participated in a two-hour general strike

On December 10, Communist President Gustav Husak resigned

December 29, the Czech Parliament appointed Vaclav Havel to the presidency

fair elections in June 1990

12 July German gypsies are arrested and sent to the Dachau concentration camp. The concentration camp of Sachsenhausen is established.

15 September The Nuremberg Laws rid the Jews of their basic civil rights.

10 May Books written by Jewish authors and opponents of the regime are burned in public.

the Final Solution are established under the direction of Reinhard Heydrich.

Desperate Jews revolt in Treblinka - most are subsequently executed. The gassings seize.

The prisoners in Sobibor revolt. A few manage to escape. The camp is subsequently closed.