Operation T4 Euthanasia 1939-1945 Hadamar Clinic

Hundreds of thousands of Europeans with disabilities were murdered between 1939 and 1945 under the Nazi T4 euthanasia program. Disability rights advocate Dave Reynolds presented about this to Eastern Washington University’s Disability Studies students in Cheney, Washington on Oct. 2, 2018. The presentation takes viewers on a mental field trip to Hadamar, Germany where nearly 15,000 people with disabilities were murdered, more than 10,000 of them through poisonous gas. Hadamar was one of six killing centers designed specifically to exterminate Germans considered “useless eaters“ that did not fit Hitler’s model of perfection. In recent decades, disability rights advocates in Germany have worked to shine light on those horrors and memorialize those innocent victims. Thoughtful memorials have been created at the former killing centers, as well as Tiergartenstrasse 4, the address of the former Nazi government office where the mass killings were planned and organized, just a few blocks from the Re