Hitler's forgotten victims
Subtitle: the Holocaust and the disabled
By: Suzanne E. Evans
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stroud
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780752454023
Subjects: History; People with disabilities; Euthanasia; Involuntary sterilization; Nazi persecution; Disabled Persons; Holocaust; Involuntary Sterilization; History, 20th Century; Euthanasie; Aktion T4
Description: "Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of adults and children with physical and mental disabilities. Their `euthanasia' programme was designed to eliminate anyone who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the purity of the German race"--Cover veros.
Notes: Originally published: Stroud: Tempus, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface  -- Bengt Lindqvist -- 1.; title: The children's killing program -- -- 2.; title: The T[subscript 4] adult euthanasia program -- -- 3.; title: Racial hygiene, Nazi doctors, and the sterilization law -- -- 4.; title: Perpetrators and accomplices -- -- 5.; title: After the atrocities -- -- 6.; title: The need to remember.