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Nazi " Angel of Death" - Irmgard Huber & killing of mentally disabled patients at Hadamar - I. Huber

Crimes of Bestial Nazi Nurse Irmgard Huber - Hadamar Euthanasia Center - Nazi Eugenics - Aktion T4. From 1920 to 1925 she was an apprentice nurse at the institution Gaversee and passed her state examination becoming a state licensed nurse. In 1932 Irmgard Huber started to work as a nurse in Hadamar - a care facility for the mentally ill. On year later Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party came into power. Many of Nazi Germany’s racial policies were shaped by theories of eugenics, or “racial hygiene”. Medical professionals implemented many of these policies and targeted individuals the Nazis defined as “hereditarily ill”: those with mental, physical, or social disabilities. Nazis claimed these individuals placed both a genetic and a financial burden upon society and the state. One of the first eugenic measures they initiated was the 1933 Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Eugenics not only provided the basis for the Nazi compulsory sterilization policy, but it also underpinned the murder of the institutionalized disabled in the clandestine “euthanasia” program. The Euthanasia Program was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany. In the spring and summer months of 1939, a number of planners began to organize a secret killing operation targeting disabled children. They were led by Philipp Bouhler, the director of Hitler's private chancellery, and Karl Brandt, Hitler's attending physician. Beginning in October 1939, public health authorities began to encourage parents of children with disabilities to admit their young children to on of a number of specially designated pediatric clinics throughout Germany and Austria. In reality, the clinics were children's killing wards. There, specially recruited medical staff murdered their young charges by lethal overdoses of medication or by starvation. T4 operatives established six gassing installations for adults as part of the "euthanasia" action. These were: Brandenburg, Grafeneck, Bernburg, in Saxony; Sonnenstein, Hartheim, and Hadamar, in Hessen, where Irmgard Huber worked as a nurse. Secretly recruited "medical experts," physicians—many of them of significant reputation—worked in teams of three to evaluate the forms. On the basis of their decisions beginning in January 1940, T4 functionaries began to remove patients selected for the "euthanasia" program from their home institutions. The patients were transported by bus or by rail to one of the central gassing installations for killing. In the first phase of the killing operations between January and August 1941, around 10,000 men, women and children were asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a Hadamar’s gas chamber which had been made to look like a shower room. The victims were sent before the physicians such as Adolf Wahlmann who identified each person with a different-coloured sticking plasters for one of three categories: murder; murder & removal of brain for research and murder & extraction of gold teeth. Because the program was secret, T4 planners and functionaries took elaborate measures to conceal its deadly designs.There was widespread public knowledge of the measure. Private and public protests concerning the killings took place, especially from members of the German clergy. Among these clergy was the bishop of Münster, Clemens August Count von Galen. He protested the T4 killings in a sermon on the 3rd of August 3 1941. In light of the widespread public knowledge and the public and private protests, Hitler ordered a halt to the Euthanasia Program in late August 1941. From August 1942 to the 24th of March 1945, approximately 4,420 persons died at Hadamar. The Euthanasia Program continued until the last days of World War II, expanding to include an ever wider range of victims, including geriatric patients, bombing victims, and foreign forced laborers. Historians estimate that the Euthanasia Program, in all its phases, claimed the lives of 250,000 individuals. On the 26th of March 1945, on their way to Central Germany, the US Army units reached the town of Hadamar and they liberated the town and the institution. In 1947, Huber was sentenced to eight additional years in prison. However, she was released from prison in 1952. For the rest of her life, Huber lived as a free woman in the town of Hadamar until 1983 when she died at the age of 82. Disclaimer: All opinions and comments below are from members of the public and do not reflect the views of World History channel. We do not accept promoting violence or hatred against individuals or groups based on attributes such as: race, nationality, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation. World History has right to review the comments and delete them if they are deemed inappropriate. ► CLICK the SUBSCRIBE button for more interesting clips:    / @worldhistoryvideos   #worldwar2 #nazigermany #euthanasia