Action T4 Persuasive Speech

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Jess and Vanessa

Slide one:

Action T4 was a plan whom Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party designed. in order for people who had a physical,intellectual or mental disability to be sent to Hartheim Euthanasia Centre to be euthanized. The program at first focused on newborns and very young children. Midwives and doctors were required to register children up to age three that showed symptoms of of physical, intellectual or mental disabilities.

Slide two:

The Action T4 plan was signed by Adolf Hitler in October 1939 which allowed Viktor Brack and Dr.Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician to perform the euthanasia. This was the first program of mass murder under the control of Hitler, coming before the extermination of Jews, which we call

In August 1942 German medical professionals and healthcare workers resumed the killings, this though happened in a more carefully concealed manner than before. The killings continued without the widespread gassings. Drugs and starvation were used instead

Slide Twelve:

The use of gas chambers at the euthanasia killing centers eventually served as training centers for the SS. They used the technical knowledge and experience gained during the euthanasia program to construct huge killing centers and concentration camps in an attempt to exterminate the entire Jewish population, SS personnel from the euthanasia killing centers, later commanded extermination camps.

Slide Thirteen:

The t4 action program had gone underground and continued privately during World War 2.

. While the program claimed over 70,000 victims during its two years of open operation, the killing centres murdered even more victims between the official conclusion of the program and the end of the Nazi leadership in 1945. The total number killed under the T4 Program, including the secret phase, may have reached 200,000 or more.

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