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Aktion T4 Introduction

    A very informative and heartfelt video on the Aktion T4 euthanasia program run by psychiatrists prior to and during World War II in Germany.

    Further references:

    German eugenics poster

    Aktion T4 – psychiatry’s eternal shame

    Aktion T4 is the mass murder of the disabled and patients of psychiatric asylums by psychiatrists and the directors of the asylums …

    Emil Kraepelin – prelude to mass murder

    Kraepelin bears responsibility for and helped set the stage for the mass murders of Aktion T4 and through his proteges provided the rationale and ‘scientific foundation’ for what became The Holocaust …