NAZIS’ EUTHANASIA PROGRAMME
60,000 TO 80,000 PERSONS KILLED (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, January 13. The Nazis under their euthanasia programme killed between 60,000 and 80,000 persons, most of them either insane, old, incurably ill, or deformed, according to an affidavit submitted during the trial of 23 German doctors and scientists charged with war crimes. They had been regarded as ’“useless eaters” and a burden to the German war machine. Hitler’s personal physician, Karl Brandt, is among the defendants.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25084, 16 January 1947, Page 3
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