History of Nazi Germany | "Cleansing" Of Children With Disabilities

"Cleansing" Of Children With Disabilities

At the end of 1938 or early 1939, Philipp Bouhler, leader of the Office of the Chancellor's Palace Fuehrer, provide a letter, written by a father of a mentally disabled child, to Hitler. The letter contains a request permit the father to kill his son; Hitler agreed. Furthermore, Hitler instead ordered his men to kill all children with disabilities in all of Germany. Philipp Bouhler yourself then given the right to form a secret police force to select and kill children with disabilities within days after their birth.

Philipp Bouhler

The secret police were then looking for children who are alleged defect, then write the biographical data and the characteristics of the child in a form. Form is then submitted to a special three doctors who will determine whether the child is unfit to live, if not, they will mark the form with the sign "X." After that, they will be assigned to pick up children who are considered "unworthy of life" for, then collected and killed with Luminal or morphine injected with a lethal dose into their bodies.