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T4 contained measures known as "Geheime

Reichssache" (Secret Reich Matters), and those
charged with implementing them were obliged to re-
main silent. One reason why little information could

be obtained about euthanasia in Nazi Germany is
that later, the personnel trained and employed with-
in the program were sent as soldiers to the most dan-
gerous fronts. The resistance partisans in Yugoslavia
were known for killing enemy troops rather than tak-

ing them prisoner. Most witnesses to the euthanasia
were sent to that particular front and eliminated.
In Fundamental Outline of Racial Hygiene, Alfred

Ploetz was one of the first to speak about the killing
of the sick and handicapped. According to Ploetz,
from the point of view of "the protection and hygiene
of the race," it was a grave error for the sick and weak
to be protected and cared for (which is exactly what

should happen in a healthy society). According to his
perverted thinking, the weak were being protected
and kept alive when they ought to be eliminated.

Ploetz was sufficiently heartless as to maintain that
the doctors' board should immediately kill a handi-
capped or flawed newborn baby with a low dose of
morphine.
Others followed in Ploetz's footsteps. In 1922 the

jurist Karl Binding and the psychiatrist Alfred Hoche A 1945 cartoon showing how all of Hitler's policies ended in
published a book supporting euthanasia titled Die death and savagery
Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens (The

Release of the Destruction of Life Devoid of Value). Their book claimed that the sick and handicapped were
a burden both to themselves and to society, that killing them would be no great loss, that the cost of keep-
ing such "useless" individuals alive was very high, and that the state could spend that money in more pro-
ductive areas. As a solution, they proposed killing the physically and mentally handicapped, and de-
manded that the religious and legal obstacles be lifted. 126 One of Hoche's irrational assumptions was that

the moral values concerning the protection of life would soon disappear, and the elimination of "unneces-
sary" life would be essential to society's survival. 127
To have a clearer grasp of just how terrifying that recommendation was, consider if you found your-

self in a society where these proposed models were actually practiced. What if your deaf sister, your blind
mother, your psychologically disturbed grandfather, your lame grandmother, or aging father were taken
away for death before your very eyes, in the name of science and for the benefit of society? No doubt you
would understand that there was nothing scientific whatsoever about the murder of people you love. You
would have no difficulty seeing these claims as the result of a diseased mentality. Such barbarity would in-

flict indescribable suffering on you and everyone you know. Such suffering was indeed experienced in
many societies, especially in Nazi Germany, and murders in the hysteria of eugenics left deep wounds in
the conscience of society.

The efforts made by evolutionists to ignore or forget the scale of these depravities are ultimately
doomed to failure. No matter how they seek to cover them up, the facts are clear. Humanity experienced
terrible suffering and grave losses on account of the ideological foundations laid by Darwinism.
At the same time that the barbarity of eugenics was taking place in Nazi Germany, it also spread to a
number of other countries, particularly the USA. In 1935, Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute pub-

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