A quarter of a million people with psychosocial disabilities were killed, nearly half a million sterilised - the majority among them those diagnosed with schizophrenia, a label that automatically devalued worth based on eugenics propaganda.
#NeverAgain #HolocaustMemorialDay
#NeverAgain #HolocaustMemorialDay
Studies indicate that between 1939 to 1955, an estimate of 220 000 - 269 000 people (equalling 73% to 100% of individuals with schizophrenia in Germany) were marked as "untermenschen, or subhuman", categorized as expendable and exterminated.
Meticulously documented post - war records estimated savings "gained" from the killing of mentally ill patients of state funded metal institutions.
“The life of a person who, because of incurable mental illness, requires permanent institutionalisation and is not able to sustain an independent existence, may be prematurely terminated in a painless and covert manner.” Link - collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog….
This was genocide couched as euthanasia. These were not "benign medical interventions". It was systematically perpetrated in an attempt to purify race, reduce "unnecessary economic outlays" and thereby maintain the strongehold of Nazi Germany.
On this #HolocaustMemorialDay, along with survivors and people with disabilities we commemorate the past by choosing to #Remember. We stand by those who are trying to reclaim their due from this relatively neglected and rationalised Holocaust narrative.
For, "Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself because it is also the extermination of memory, of history, of the social." #WeRemember
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