EUTHANASIA IN GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23361, 21 June 1941, Page 5

EUTHANASIA IN GERMANY

(ife Sir,—Some days' ago (Monday, ; June B&kU) thereappeared in “The Press” an P|Martlcle containing statements almost ffittoo horrible to mention, yet it seems K'Hthat the matter should be mentioned, Khitfs it is., importaupe.- | Briefly, Germany, was Wt 1 deliberately 1 1 4®? II? lands of her aged. aick, and mnnn. ln KI order-that the*!, helpless-people might i|U not-: remain adrag on, her war .activities. mIU t To quote from the artide. In Sep-

tember, October, and - November of 1940, 85,000 blind; f incufably;;. iIL draged Germans were put to death by the Gestapo. , They ; .were put to death •as casually. as. the Society .for. the. Prevention I ,of Cruelty tb /Anjgmals qhloroforins old and helpless-dogs. “Tfoey were nbt killed for mercy. They; ware killed because they could no longer manufacture; guns in return for. the food they consumed; because the German hospitals. were needed.for wounded Soldiers; because their death was thee Ultimate logic of the- National Socialist doctrine of racial superiority and 1 the survival of the physically lit. . If this, and all it implies, is true, it Is! indeed ' dreadful, JalmoSt-, beyond imagination. tTbe.;eyidence ;given, in thevarticle does ■ not appear; altogether conclusive, or at least there'seems a possißUßy . that ‘ sOtoe ;. mistake - may made.'---I ; rha^v.lot>lted 4 -care-:. fully; for some-further- reference to -the matter* but have found none. Badly as we have been compelled .to think of the airmans, I feel quiteAure that, most' firitishers wtmld te-ye^:rduc-taht indeed to believe such a story .as; the' :atronge?t; of be given.—Yours, etc, V 1,, . QEQHGEINGRAM. June, i8,‘1941;. r