Aktion T4 (German, pronounced [akˈtsi̯oːn teː fiːɐ]) was a campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia which targeted people with disabilities in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in the killings. [4]

2020年10月7日 · The Nazi Euthanasia Program, codenamed Aktion "T4," was the systematic murder of institutionalized people with disabilities. Read about Nazi “euthanasia.”

2021年6月3日 · Inside the Aktion T4 program, the Nazi euthanasia initiative that saw as many as 300,000 disabled people killed that many historians refer to as the Nazi's "rehearsal" for the Holocaust. They starved and gassed them — and some of the perpetrators got off light.

2025年1月26日 · T4 Program, Nazi German effort—framed as a euthanasia program—to kill incurably ill, physically or mentally disabled, emotionally distraught, and elderly people. Adolf Hitler initiated the program in 1939.

His death would mark the start of one of the most hideous programmes of the Second World War – the mass murder of the mentally ill and the physically disabled throughout Germany and some of its occupied territories. The programme would come to be known as Aktion T4.

Of the number of people killed in the T4 and the 14f13 projects, the following statistics are usually given: adult mental patients from institutions, 80,000 to 100,000; children in institutions, 5,000; special action against Jews in institutions, 1,000; concentration camp inmates transported to killing centers (14f13), 20,000 (Klee estimated ...

Historians estimate that more than 70,000 men, women, and children were murdered through Action T4. This registration form shows how patients were selected for the program. The questions offer a glimpse into how the National Socialists fused medical knowledge with …

“Aktion T4”, also known historically as the “T4 Euthanasia Program”, was a concerted, concentrated, and deliberate effort on the part of the Nazis to see to the extirpation of those that were deemed by the Fuhrer as undesirable.

2016年5月4日 · In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a decree that enabled Nazi Germany to forcefully euthanize patients who they deemed were “unworthy of life”. After the war, the law was classified as Action T4.

Between end of October 1941 and summer of 1942, approximately 100 T4 members were sent to Lublin to install and operate the three extermination camps of Aktion Reinhard. The T4 operation members Wirth, Stangl and Eberl became the first commanders of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka.