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Child euthanasia (German: Kinder-Euthanasie) was the name given to the organized killing of severely mentally and physically disabled children and young people up to 16 years old during the Nazi era in over 30 so-called "special children's wards".
Child euthanasia is a form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or have significant birth defects. In 2005, the Netherlands became the first country since the end of Nazi Germany to decriminalize euthanasia for infants with hopeless prognosis and intractable pain. [ 1 ]
Grave-site of euthanasia children's victims from the Spiegelgrund clinic at Wien-Zentralfriedhof. The upper stone block reads (in German) "Never forgotten" and the lower stone block reads (in German) "In memory of the children and adolescents, who fell victim to NS euthanasia as "life unworthy of life" from 1940 to 1945 in the former children's hospital "Am Spiegelgrund".
Children killed in World War II by Nazi Germany (1 C, 22 P) S. German child soldiers in World War II (2 C, 8 P) ... Child euthanasia in Nazi Germany; H.
Czesława Kwoka, 14-year-old Auschwitz concentration camp victim. Nazi Germany perpetrated various crimes against humanity and war crimes against children, including the killing of children of unwanted or "dangerous" people in accordance with Nazi ideological views, either as part of their idea of racial struggle or as a measure of preventive security.
Related titles should be described in Euthanasia in Nazi Germany, while unrelated titles should be moved to Euthanasia in Nazi Germany (disambiguation). Euthanasia in Nazi Germany consisted of various campaigns of murder against the physically and mentally ill, including:
In early 1946, "euthanasia" crimes such as those at Hadamar were transferred to the German courts, newly reconstructed under the occupation. In early 1947, a German tribunal in Frankfurt tried 25 Hadamar personnel, including Wahlmann and Huber, for the murder of some 15,000 German patients at the facility. Although some had their sentences ...
After receiving a petition from the child's parents, the German Führer Adolf Hitler authorized one of his personal physicians, Karl Brandt, to have the child euthanized. This marked the beginning of the program in Nazi Germany known as a " euthanasia program" – Aktion T4 – which ultimately resulted in the murder of about 200,000 people ...