Part 5 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ When Allied forces liberated the camps between the summer of 1944 and the spring of 1945, what they found shocked the world. The first liberated camp, Majdanek, in Poland, quickly revealed the horror of end-stage eugenics. The Allies’ advance was so swift that the Nazi camp personnel fled, …

Part 4 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ The secret official and organized killing under Aktion T4 at the six killing centers continued. However, by late 1941 things were starting to fall apart. The general public were starting to realize what was happening. People living near the killing centers increasingly noticed that the grey buses with …

Part 3 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?“ Unofficial killing began in earnest before Aktion T4 was implemented. In the beginning, Germans with disabilities (including infants and children) were admitted to hospitals across the country for “treatment,” where they were killed in a variety of ways: lethal injections, starvation, and by deliberately shutting off heat to …

Part 2 in the 10-Part Series “Is Any Life Unworthy of Living?” Hitler had alluded to the Jewish Final Solution in Mein Kampf (1924), echoing many of the themes of Binding and Hoche’s 1920 ideas, including that the disabled were a state burden who could not contribute economically. As noted in Part 1, when the Nazis came to power in …

Many people believe that eugenics is a long-discredited idea that has no part in modern civilized society. This is wildly inaccurate. Eugenics is alive and well in 2026, albeit in different ideological and legal clothing. What began in the late 1800s as a simple idea applied to the animal kingdom soon morphed into Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” arguments for …