Tiergartenstrasse 4

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Friends and Families of Psychiatric Survivors of Wisconsin

Tiergartenstrasse 4

The Cemetery at Hadamar Killing Center

Now they do it with drugs. It takes a little longer.

Seventy thousand mentally and physically handicapped people, including children and the aged, were murdered, as "life unworthy of life," and, "useless eaters".

This program was inspired by American psychiatrists, with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said, "Three generations of idiots are enough." Buck v Bell, 274 U.S. 205 (1927)

At the beginning of the twentieth century, that generous attitude toward the mentally ill [created by moral treatment] disappeared in American society. It was replaced by a belief---touted as grounded in science---that the severely mentally ill were carriers of defective "germ plasm," and as such, posed a perilous threat to the future health of American society. In a stream of scientifc articles, newspaper editorials, and popular books, the mentally ill were described as a degenerate strain of humanity, "social wastage" that bred at alarming rates and burdened "normal" Americans with the great expense of paying for their upkeep. . . . America's eugenicists even encouraged Nazi Germany in its massive sterilization of the mentally ill, a program that led directly to the crematoriums of the holocaust.

----- from Mad in America, by Robert Whitaker; Chapter 3, "Unfit to Breed"

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Meanwhile, here are a few links about the T4 Program to get you started:

http://www.irren-offensive.de/t4.htm

http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/euthan.html

http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/t4.html

http://www.deathcamps.org/t4/ (This link isn't working now. I'm just leaving it up here for when I have more time to find out where it has gone.)

We no longer say "life unworthy of life," or, "useless eaters". We now have a slightly more genteel way of putting it. We speak of the "cost to society of untreated mental illness". The idea is the same.