Policies towards the disabled Flashcards
What was the Weimar view on those with mental disabilities
There began to be some understanding and research attempts
What was the Weimar view on those with physical disabilities
Were given some assistance but mainly were forgotten about
What was the name of the sterilisation law
Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny
When was Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Progeny introduced
July 1933
Who was the 1933 sterilisation law compulsory for
Those with congenital feeblemindedness, schizophrenia, manic depressive illness, epilepsy, chronic alcoholism, hereditary blindness and deafness, severe physical malformation
What age must the 1933 sterilisation law be practised on what later amended
aged 10+, force to be used on 14+ with no legal rep
What did the 1935 law state about abortions and sterilisation
Abortions permitted for pregnant women who would normally be sterilised, this meant their child would then not be sterilised
What happened in 1936 regarding sterilisation
X-ray sterilisation of women 38+
How were the decisions on sterilisation made
At hereditary health courts, the hearing was 10 minutes and then you were operated on within 2 weeks
What percentage of those sterilised were ‘feebleminded’ (IQ = 0-49)
60%
How many people were sterilised according to records
400,000
What did propaganda promote disabled and long term illnesses to be
A burden and their death was sold as a mercy
What happened in early 1939 when a father wrote Hitler a letter asking for his child to be put to sleep
Dr Philipp Bouhler (Hitler’s chief of office) made sure Hitler saw it
Karl Brandt (SS doctor) went and did so
How were doctors of the mercy killings able to do so
Hitler promised to protect doctors from prosecution from ‘mercy killings’
When was it legal to euthanise mentally and physically disabled people
October 1939
How many people were killed overall from aktion T4
275000 to 300000
What happened to aktion T4 when the public disliked it in 1941
They ‘haltered’ but secretly went underground
How did the doctors get away with aktion T4
They faked their death certificates
When was the biggest protest agaisnt aktion T4
February 1941
When did the last death from aktion T4 occur
29th May 1945
Why did aktion T4 change from just children to adults
There was a larger scale to do so
What was aktion T4
A mass killing of people by euthanasia over a period of time
How many children were killed in aktion T4
5000
How many adults were killed by aktion T4 in the first wave
8000
