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  • to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people.
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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
      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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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
       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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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
      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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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
      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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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
      Knowing there would be opposition, the Nazis stated the murders were "final medical assistance."
  • urns containing ashes.
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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
      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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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
       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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      anonymous on 02 Mar 15
       
      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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