Nikolaus koliusis biography of mahatma

Memorial in Berlin, Germany

The Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist Euthanasia Killings (German: Gedenk- und Informationsort für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen "Euthanasie"-Morde) is a memorial in Berlin, Germany to the victims of Nazi Germany's state-sponsored involuntarily euthanasia program.^[1] Over 70,000 people were murdered between 1940–41 under official order of Aktion T4.

Despite the program's technical cessation in August 1941, the killings continued in state-run institutions and care facilities until Germany's surrender in 1945. This amounted to a death toll of approximately 300,000.

Nikolaus koliusis biography of mahatma

History

The targets of this genocide were those deemed to suffer from mental or physical illness. They were deemed as lesser beings by the Nazi party.^[2] The program fell in line with the ideas of eugenics and racial hygiene.

Forced sterilizations were al