Aktion T4 euthanasia program

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The Aktion T4 euthanasia program was a Nazi state-run campaign during World War II that systematically murdered tens of thousands of disabled and mentally ill people under the guise of medical care and racial hygiene.

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instanceOf Nazi euthanasia program
crime against humanity
war crime
alternativeName Nazi euthanasia program
T4 program
authorizedBy Adolf Hitler
country Nazi Germany
endTime 1941
estimatedNumberOfVictims 70000
to 100000
followedBy Aktion 14f13
decentralized killings of disabled people
hasCause Nazi racial hygiene ideology
eugenics policies in Nazi Germany
headquartersLocation Tiergartenstrasse 4, Berlin
inception September 1939
inspired extermination camp gas chamber techniques
justification economic burden arguments
racial hygiene
languageOfName German
legalForm secret Führer decree
location Austria
Germany
occupied Poland
mainSubject children with severe disabilities
people with intellectual disabilities
people with physical disabilities
psychiatric patients
method carbon monoxide poisoning
gas chambers
lethal injection
starvation
namedAfter Tiergartenstrasse 4
operator Chancellery of the Führer
Reich Ministry of the Interior
SS
opposedBy Bishop Clemens August Graf von Galen
some German clergy
partOf Holocaust
perpetrator Adolf Hitler
Karl Brandt
Philipp Bouhler
result formal halt in August 1941
significantEvent systematic murder of disabled people
systematic murder of mentally ill people
startTime 1939
timePeriod World War II
victimDemographics Austrian citizens
German citizens
occupied Polish citizens

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NaziRacialPolicy justified Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Nazism implementedPolicy Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Clemens August Graf von Galen opposed Nazi euthanasia program Aktion T4
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Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring relatedProgram Aktion T4
linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Aktion T4 alternativeName Nazi euthanasia program
subject linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Franz Stangl servedIn T-4 Euthanasia Program
linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Christian Wirth participatedIn Aktion T4
linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Franz Reichleitner workedAt T-4 euthanasia program (administrative background)
linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Clemens August Graf von Galen opposed Nazi euthanasia program (Aktion T4)
linked to: Aktion T4 euthanasia program
Clemens August Graf von Galen opposed Aktion T4 euthanasia program
subject linked to: Clemens August
Tiergartenstrasse 4 coordinateProgram Aktion T4
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Tiergartenstrasse 4 usedBy central office of Aktion T4
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Tiergartenstrasse 4 partOf Aktion T4 administration network
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Tiergartenstrasse 4 category Aktion T4
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Aktion 14f13 follows Aktion T4
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Aktion 14f13 relatedTo Aktion T4
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T4 program alsoKnownAs Aktion T4
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T4 program partOf Nazi eugenics program
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Karl Brandt participantIn Aktion T4
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Viktor Brack participantIn Aktion T4
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Herbert Lange participantIn Aktion T4
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