Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and Action T4
Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP and Action T4

Author(s): Pavel Zeman
Subject(s): Politics, Studies in violence and power, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Fascism, Nazism and WW II
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Chancellery of the Führer; Adolf Hitler; NSDAP; Action T4; euthanasia programme; mass murder;
Summary/Abstract: Adolf Hitler wrote that ‘it is impossible to let the incurably ill continue infecting the healthy’ in Mein Kampf as early as in 1924. Three years later, he mentioned the eugenic killing of newborns in his speech at the National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) rally in Nuremberg: If Germany gains one million children and gets rid of the 700,000 to 800,000 weakest individuals every year, it should emerge stronger ultimately. The greatest hazard for us is not enabling the natural selection process, thus losing the possibility of gaining capable individuals.

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