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Smoking chimney from the
ovens used to burn the corpses
at the Hadamar killing center

Photographs from different angles of
the Bernburg killing center

the buildings were camouflaged as showers.
This is how this terrifying system func-

tioned: After the questionnaires' responses
were received, a notice was sent to the insti-
tutions caring for those patients selected for
death, announcing that space was to be made

available for war-wounded, or that patients
were to be removed elsewhere to receive bet-
ter treatment. One of the front groups collected these patients and transport-
ed them to one of the killing centers. There, they were exterminated within a

few hours of their arrival.
Not only the mentally incurable were butchered. As the practice of eu-
thanasia gained pace, the Nazis began to include other "undesirables." Death
warrants were issued for the mentally unstable, schizophrenics, the elderly

and infirm, epileptics, and people suffering from Parkinson's disease, paralysis,
multiple sclerosis, brain tumors and other organic neurological disorders. Children were killed in the same
way, and orphanages and reformatories were investigated in detail to discover new victims.
One very important point must be made clear: 50% of those killed might have recovered had they been

permitted to do so. 132
In order to conceal the T4 operations, great efforts went in to making the death centers appear like or-
dinary mental hospitals. 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 responsible

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