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November 7, 2024

Visiting the Third Reich’s “Schools of Murder”

Before the final solution, there was the medical slaughter of the mentally ill and physically unfit.

On Tuesday, the voters of West Virginia passed a measure putting a ban on “medically assisted suicide, euthanasia, or mercy killing” into the state constitution. The first of those terms is the one favored in Canada, where the practice has become fairly widespread; the other two were used by the Nazis, euphemistically, to describe their T-4 program, where the mentally ill and those with other chronic conditions were murdered. This program preceded the systematic murder of the Jews. Amanda Achtman describes her tour of the places where it happened:

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