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T4 Program | Nazi policy | Encyclopedia Britannica - 0 views

  • to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people.
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      T4 is about Paula Becker, a young girl who lives in Germany during Word War Two. She is born partially deaf, and at eighteen months old, Paula is eventually completely deaf. 
  • Dr. Karl Brandt and Chancellery chief Philipp Bouhler
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       These men nearly cost Paula her life as she is forced into hiding.
  • The Nazis referred to the program’s victims as “burdensome lives” and “useless eaters.”
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      The Nazis put these people in specialized "children wards"-they meant killing centers. Paula escapes this fate with the help of her uncle, who brings her to an orphanage who is willing to hide her.
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  • psychiatric institutions, hospitals, and homes for chronically ill patients.
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      In T4, Paula claims the disabled in the institutions were the first to be eradicated.
  • killed people at first by starvation and lethal injection, they later chose asphyxiation by poison gas as the preferred killing technique.
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      Knowing there would be opposition, the Nazis stated the murders were "final medical assistance."
  • urns containing ashes.
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      In T4, the head of the orphanage, Father Michael warns Paula of the danger of being disabled. He tells her of a woman he knew who had a disabled sister. The Nazis had taken her sister, and all she received was an urn full of ashes.
  • Visits, however, were not possible
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       Paula was not able to see her family for six years, constantly moving in fear of the Nazis. Her family is forced behind and is forgotten during those six years of terror.
  • While the program claimed over 70,000 victims during its two years of open operation, the killing centres murdered even more victims between the official conclusion of the program and the fall of the Nazi regime in 1945.
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      It was only due to her courageous landlords that Paula survived, though she missed her childhood and went through things people, let alone a child, should go through.
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