crimes. In May 1939, an advisory group, the Committee for the Scientific Treatment of Severe and Genetically Determined Illness, was formed to determine if and how a euthanasia program for children and adults would operate. The adult project was housed in Berlin at number 4 Tiergartenstrasse, giving rise to its code name "T-4." In the beginning, there appeared to be a broad level of support for this throughout the country. Patients then began to be euthanized by lethal injection at various hospitals and other health care institutions. In September 1939, the chancellor provided legal immunity for the doctors engaged in mercy killings.By 1941, word began to spread on involuntary killings. So, in August 1941, the physician-assisted death program at Hadamar and the other T-4 hospitals were officially ordered to be discontinued. By this time, 80,000 to 100,000 people had been killed under the T-4 program. At Hadamar, however, the program never ceased. Only the method of death changed: from injections to starvation. The original 'euthanasia' project, the killing of those who were seriously ill [T-4], was extended to killing virtually anyone whose death was desired. First, hospitalized Jews who had previously been denied a mercy death were given "special treatment," and killed along with Germans in the euthanasia program. Later it was ordered that Jews and other undesirables be transported from the concentration camps to the same killing centers used by the T-4 program. In conclusion, Hitler firmly convinced that Darwinian evolution was true, saw himself as the modern saviour of mankind. Society, he felt, would some day regard him as a great ‘scientific socialist’, the benefactor of all humankind.1517 WORDS...
