International Holocaust Remembrance Day
International Holocaust Remembrance Day The Nazi T4 Program This post is dedicated to all those who lost their lives during the Holocaust, in all its guises, and to all those who have been victims of other atrocities and acts of genocide. It was 1st September 1939, when the outbreak of World War Two was declared. The Nazi party under Adolf Hitler had been in power for a number of years and had implemented many changes to law on the domestic front as well as aggressive behavior towards her neighbours. But the day was an important one in history for another reason, in a retrospective way. In order to understand we need to come forward, just a little way, in order to go backwards in time. In October 1939 Hitler signed a new decree, the Euthanasia Decree, backdated to September 1st 1939, for a plan that was already in action. Implemented as a resolution to what he claimed was the growing burden on society of the “incurably sick”. By Spring 1940, the Euthanasia Decree had develop...