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for the killings to cease. They did not, however, and all that hap-
pened was a change of methods, involving either lethal injection

or starvation, with the dead buried in mass graves. In this way,
the savagery of euthanasia continued throughout the war.

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After slaughtering a great many "undesirable" and alleged-
ly "useless" mentally ill people, the T4 program widened its
sphere of activity under the code name 14f13. Previously
restricted to mental hospitals and research institutes, the pro-
gram was now directed toward German and Austrian prisoners
who fell sick because of the conditions they were kept in, and
towards Jews, Poles and Gypsies in the concentration camps.
Operation 14f13 began in December 1941. Special commissions
consisting of psychiatrists were added to the Berlin T4 team, and
they selected sick and in their view, otherwise, undesirable indi-
viduals and sent them to concentration camps to empty out
A German psychi-
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1925

The Hadamar
killing center's
cemetery

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