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In order to conceal the T4 operations, great efforts went in
to making the death centers appear like ordinary mental hospi-

tals. This was admitted at the Nuremberg trials by Viktor Brack,
head of the 2nd unit of the KdF (a term used to refer to the
Chancellery of the Führer) and one of the main figures responsi-
ble for the euthanasia program. Brack stated that on entering the
death chambers, the patients carried towels and soap and
thought they were going to have a real shower. Instead of water,
though, they were "showered" with poison gas.
High-level Nazis devoted to Hitler selected the students
who carried out the killings, who were given very special train-
ing. At first they would watch the killings and, as their training
progressed, they would take patients to the chambers and begin

to switch on the poison gas. They would watch the victims in
their death throes, and after death had been ascertained, they
would ventilate the chambers and remove the bodies. They thus
massacred thousands of innocent victims.
These murders were all carried out under tight security,
with every possible precaution to prevent the slightest leak of
information, because the people killed in these buildings were
not members of "other races." Most were Germans and

Austrians. If the German public ever learned that their compa-
triots were being killed in this way, the Nazis would find this
difficult to explain, and so adopted all possible security mea-
sures.
The students, who had now turned into executioners of
sorts, soon grew used to the murder procedures, and became
immune to the pleadings, screams and writhings of the victims.
During this process, their instructors closely observed their reac-
tions and wrote reports about them. It was calculated that if stu-
dents had no difficulty in killing members of their own race

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