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- From: kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay)
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- Subject: Holocaust Almanac: Estimates of "euthanasia" victims
- Keywords: 14f13,euthanasia,T4,Hartheim,Renno,Ziereis
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.090004.26475@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 09:00:04 GMT
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- Organization: The Old Frog's Almanac, Vancouver Island, CANADA
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- File: 14f13.03
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- T4 - The camouflage organization created for the medical killing of
- adults was known as the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing
- Homes (Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Heil- und Pflegeanstalten, or RAG).
- It operated from the Berlin Chancellery, at Tiergarten 4, hence
- the "T4" code name.
-
- "Of the number of people killed in the T4 and the 14f13 projects, the
- following statistics are usually given: adult mental patients from
- institutions, 80,000 to 100,000; children in institutions, 5,000; special
- action against Jews in institutions, 1,000; concentration camp inmates
- transported to killing centers (14f13), 20,000 (Klee estimated that at the
- end of 1941, some 93,521 `beds' had been emptied for other uses [70,000
- patients gassed, plus over 20,000 dead through starvation and medication]
- -- in other words approximately one-third of the places for the mentally
- ill.)<27> But these figures may well be too low; twice these numbers of
- people may have perished. The fact is that we do not know and shall
- probably never know. Elements of deception, imposed chaos, and the
- destruction of many records make anything like an accurate estimate
- impossible.
-
- The same is true concerning the total number of people murdered at specific
- killing centers. Hartheim victims of both ordinary `euthanasia' and 14f13
- are variously estimated from 20,000 (by Dr. Georg Renno, Lonauer's
- successor as director), to 400,000 (by Franz Ziereis, the former commandant
- of Mauthausen, on his deathbed); 30,000 is believed to be the best
- estimate.<28> While these figures may seem unimpressive when placed next to
- the millions killed in the Final Solution, they represent the murder of
- shockingly large numbers of people -- all in places characterized as
- hospitals."
-
- <27> Klee, "Euthanasie" pp. 340-41; Lothar Gruchmann, "Euthanasie und
- Justiz im Dritten Reich," Vierteljahrshefte fuer Zeitgeshichte 20
- (1972):244
- <28> Florian Zehethofer, "Das Euthanasieproblem im Dritten Reich am Beispel
- Schloss Harthein (1938-1945)," Oberoesterreichische Heimatsblaetter 32
- (1978):58-60
-
- Extracted from---------------------------------------------------
- THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.
- Lifton, Robert Jay, London: Papermac, 1986 (Reprinted 1990)
- -----------------------------------------------------------p. 142
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