Euthanasia

Euthanasia, or the movement to kill severely disabled individuals “not worth living,” is older than the Third Reich, but it was only during that era that euthanasia was made government policy, implemented in all secrecy.

February 7, 1999 Dear CODOH: Thank you for forwarding to me the response to my analysis of the Wetzel-Lohse correspondence in "The Gas Chamber of Sherlock Holmes" as found on The Holocaust-History Project. I would make the following comments. The author of the piece accuses me of many errors, and …

The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide, Robert Jay Lifton, New York: Basic Books Inc., 1986. xiii+561 pages. $19.95 The Nazi Doctors is divided into three main parts entitled "Life Unworthy of Life" (pp. 22-144; Chapters 1-6), "Auschwitz: The Racial Cure" (pp. 148-414; Chapter 7-18) and "The …

Gizmo was our faithful family dog for eighteen years before we “put him down” a few years ago. Our neighbors and friends were suitably sympathetic, and their reaction was entirely appropriate; we were rather broken up about it for several days. It was worst for our children, who had literally …