Aktion T4 - Nazi Extermination Program for the Disabled - History Documentary

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  • @NancyOrtiz-c1p
    @NancyOrtiz-c1p 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Heartbreaking…my daughter is autistic and it devastates me to know how she would’ve been treated, and subsequently put to death. I can’t imagine how those families felt. Can’t stop the tears. Thank you for sharing!

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is a shocking story.

    • @LeonGustaveStuart1899
      @LeonGustaveStuart1899 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      To think some weirdo neo nazis in 2024 who claim they are Christian will stay silent on killing disabled kids. The nazis were VERY un Christian. Yes also obviously the communists were. Sickening that anyone can say it's ok what they did or try deny it

  • @lisawright63
    @lisawright63 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    This was really interesting but obviously disturbing.
    You Presented this very well. Thank you for sharing.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Thank you Lisa, it's not easy to watch, but I think the story deserves to better known.

  • @Easy-Death_Oven4056
    @Easy-Death_Oven4056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you for this!! I am an Autistic individual, trying to educate myself on the history of Ableism, and this has been helpful for my studies!!

  • @henrygingercat
    @henrygingercat ปีที่แล้ว +14

    30 or so years ago, as part of a fact-finding team to Austria, I visited a home for adults with learning disabilities. "You don't seem to have many elderly clients.", someone asked. Our host coughed, muttered and changed the subject. Then the penny dropped and the room went about 20 degrees colder.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you, this brings it home how much of a lasting impact on society the program had.

  • @willtosch5732
    @willtosch5732 2 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    It's difficult enough to imagine nursing staff giving lethal injections to defenseless children, but to think how they ignored the cries of the infants they were starving to death... evil beyond my comprehension.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      And knowing that many of them just continued their jobs after the war...

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Dehumanization of “the other” can make you do quite a bit of evil.
      I still have PTSD from what was done to me nearly 60 years ago, being born with Goldenhar Syndrome. I strongly suspect I was seen then - and still am - seen as a lesser being by some people.

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 ปีที่แล้ว

      @eduardmedrea1930 what - that I’m seen as a lesser being? It’s simple, really - if you are somehow different, there are people that see you as a threat to their *exalted* existence by your mere presence. This means they don’t want you around to *poison* their world - and if they can “dispose of” all persons like you, their world will somehow be “greatly improved.”
      These people commonly see themselves as superior beings, and often have pseudo-magical notions of “purity” operating at a (usually) unconscious level. That means they have a fear of Contamination, much as if they were deep into “Hindutva” and saw themselves as a kind of Brahmin.
      This also leads to “Cultish” behavior, and an overall aspect of “everything operates by Magic(k), hence one only needs to know the right people (seen as arch-Magicians, e.g. Leaders with dictatorial powers) the right “chants” (catch-phrases, or in some cases, actual chants or *Mantras* ) or have the correct appearances, tools, vehicles, etc.”
      This last is a form of *impression-management.*

    • @janiehill4256
      @janiehill4256 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      @@dennisyoung4631. I had to look this syndrome up as I had never heard of it. Even though it’s been so long, bless you and hope you can heal.

    • @dennisyoung4631
      @dennisyoung4631 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@janiehill4256 what I have isn’t *quite* as noticeable as some vids show on TH-cam. My face is slightly lopsided, I’m deaf on my right side, my right “ear” was almost completely missing - and there’s a lot of other stuff, most of which wasn’t diagnosed until later in life. Some was *misdiagnosed,* resulting in some serious, life-altering mistreatment. Much of it was treated by others as evidence of bad character/innate evil/?? - as if I only tried harder, I could act “normal.”
      I now know what they meant by “Normal” - accept my defined status as a lesser being, and give them, my betters, that worship they were due. I wasn’t able to do so then, because I didn’t have the usual ways of discerning such things, and no one had thought to teach me. I still don’t have the *usual* ways, but I did receive some information about how the bad parts of peoples’ minds work.
      It *is* bad enough that I’ve caught all kinds of since I was born.

  • @SabinaSpencer
    @SabinaSpencer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Hello Graeme, I have suspected for a few years that my mother's older sister, Ursula Scheuermann, was a victim of Aktion T4. She was born in 1935 with a brain injury. My brother recently confirmed that our grandmother had also believed that Ursula was one of the early victims. We were told as children that 'everyone in the childrens' home had disappeared'. I have been thinking a lot about Ursula recently - a long lost photo of her has recently resurfaced, showing a much loved little girl with her adoring grandmother. I wonder if there is any way of getting her name added to the holocaust memorial?

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Thank you for sharing this Sabina. There are good records for many hospitals so if you know the area she was born, it might be possible to locate the hospital. There is an Aktion T4 memorial and information centre in Berlin that might be able to help (Tiergartenstraße 4, 10785 Berlin).

    • @blanketyblank604
      @blanketyblank604 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@professorgraemeyorston I hope the nazis didnt burn the records.My ancestory prior to world war II in poland has been burned and untracable according to my parents.Im polish in origin.My great grandfather came to the USA from poland before WW I.

  • @holirumicsfriend
    @holirumicsfriend 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Thanks for this video! I understand must have been very difficult to research and create the video! Thanks for your work! It honors the victims and brings recognition so it doesn’t happen again!

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you, it is easy to think we have heard all about the Holocaust before and there is nothing new to learn, but I wasn't aware of the scale of the killings of people with mental disorders, so it was a difficult video to do.

  • @farhanaomer7947
    @farhanaomer7947 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    This is good work and lot of hard work is obvious….)
    Such a unique and tragic chapter of history and scary to see how doctors contributed to misery and closing comments sums it well…)
    Thank you 😊

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Farhana

    • @marksakowski9272
      @marksakowski9272 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Doctor contributed to the Covid scare - so it is nothing new, particularly for German "doctors"!

  • @mikemaresca4999
    @mikemaresca4999 2 ปีที่แล้ว +38

    I lie to my kids when I tell them there are no such things as "monsters"...
    I can't bring myself to tell them that there most certainly are such things...
    and that the even more frightening thing, is that they look like regular people.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Thanks Mike, I guess that the difference between the innocence of childhood when the knights in shining armour always win, and adulthood when you realise they don't.

    • @JaimeGarcia-pe7bj
      @JaimeGarcia-pe7bj ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Don't feel badly. There will be plenty of time for them to learn.

    • @konyvnyelv.
      @konyvnyelv. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They aren't monsters. They are just eugenists

    • @MrEjidorie
      @MrEjidorie 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      People who committed heinous crimes in Auschwitz and Nanjing were not monsters, but ordinary citizens who were good husbands, fathers and sons at home. Once we are integrated into huge fanatic organizations as small cogs in the big wheels, even well-educated people could not judge independently and they would commit wrongdoings without senses of sin. Our conscience is very vulnerable to peer pressure.

    • @NotNormal654
      @NotNormal654 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Evil will come everywhere.

  • @hunnybadger442
    @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Those of us who have seen this coming... Both past and present... We've been trying to warn you... but our warning always fall on deaf ears... And by the time you realize we were right... it's always too late...
    First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist.
    Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a trade unionist.
    Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew.
    Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak for me.
    -Martin Niemöller

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thank you, this is very profound.

    • @hunnybadger442
      @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@professorgraemeyorston thank you so much... I'm getting prepared atm to maybe start my own channel

    • @konyvnyelv.
      @konyvnyelv. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's nonsense

    • @verity-dx7es
      @verity-dx7es 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Past generations try and warn posterity. "The Poisoned Needle" by Dr Eleanor MacBean(1957).
      Lily Loat.
      And many more.
      Man never learns but keeps repeating the same pattern.
      What a vile malignancy lives among us.
      GOD, please end this repetition of evil.

  • @rhobot75
    @rhobot75 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Never forget!
    Thank you. And I appreciate the lack of music.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Thank you. It's a harrowing thing to watch but a story that needs to be remembered.

    • @konyvnyelv.
      @konyvnyelv. 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I forgot

  • @voyaristika5673
    @voyaristika5673 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It is a difficult subject. I appreciate you stressing how many ordinary people were part of this horror, because we are too quick to say, "It couldn't happen 'here'." We have the 20/20 hindsight given by history, but aren't so good at recognizing events as they unfold gradually attached to pretty words, and "for the good of the people." You approached this subject with great respect and regard for the victims that is obviously heartfelt. Thank you.

  • @jamesyorston2385
    @jamesyorston2385 2 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Unbelievable that some of those doctors got away with it and continued to practice medicine.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I was shocked when I found that out.

    • @digitalforensicsglobalsolu7966
      @digitalforensicsglobalsolu7966 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They still are. California has a secret

    • @skymabile2855
      @skymabile2855 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That's gonna f*** me when I play the Medic in Team Fortress 2. No doubt he lost his medical license by being the fall guy.

  • @karentanner4002
    @karentanner4002 2 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Thank you
    As a 🇬🇧 nurse
    I worry about.how easily people succumb to mass formation psychosis.
    We are on the brink
    It will happen again in my lifetime
    But NEVER from my hands x

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks Karen

    • @veilbreak5867
      @veilbreak5867 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But almost everyone in modern society supports the murder of children.... As long as its done by a 'doctor'
      So it has happened since, and is still happening on a much larger scale. Billions of babies have been 'euthenised' since ww2. Everyone knows about it.... And most support it.... Believing themselves righteous.
      Even wearing tee shirts that read:
      Proud of my abortion!!
      The people who protest it are considered the extreme dangerous ones.
      We live in a society that literally celebrates the mass culling of infants.
      So we don't need to go back to nazi Germany.... We've surpassed anything they did.

  • @ColleenC-n5v
    @ColleenC-n5v 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you for bravely and sensitively exploring this darkest corner of history’s inhumane treatment of our most vulnerable and easily exploited people.

  • @sarazimmerman713
    @sarazimmerman713 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Thank you. We must Never Forget.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      And yet people are far less aware of this than of other aspects of the Nazi atrocities.

    • @veilbreak5867
      @veilbreak5867 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We've normalised the murders of billions of babies since ww2 through abortion.
      Yet the people protesting the genocide are called right wing fascists. And are demonised.... Whilst the supporters of the cull are considered righteous.

  • @globescape4771
    @globescape4771 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for providing the Journal article sources in your description. It is most helpful. I think everyone should provide the sources for their youtube videos for further research.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Although some people have doubted my credentials but I am a real professor and citing sources is second nature!

  • @wendyshanahan9986
    @wendyshanahan9986 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was so interesting . Scary and sad to think things like that happened

  • @donnamuller6460
    @donnamuller6460 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    This was excellent. I’ve been binge-watching you for 7 hours if you include my comments. My husband is fortunate enough to work internationally, from the Far East to Africa to many countries in Europe. We try to connect the European jobs so we can go where we want in between, (for the 15 years leading up to Covid, and then becoming bedridden as I described in my Frida video comment tonight) which is everywhere Holocaust related. If we’ve been to a city, we’ve seen every single thing in it, down to the last eagle shadow on a stucco wall. I have a bookcase of WW2 books including “Hitler’s Willing Executioners.” The day we went to Dachau it was freezing cold, which is when it’s best to travel. First of all, we have coats and everything else warm, and the prisoners were always cold, so I can stand it for a couple of hours. Second, we were the ONLY ones there. I can’t put into words how it feels to stand in front of those trenches where so many were shot, or in the particular rooms I don’t even want to name because then I won’t be able to see. All alone. Other camps, 5X to Munich, Nurmberg, Berlin, Berchtesgaden, and countless more. So many cities not known for Nazi history have Documentation Centers where I happily read all day while my husband works. Thank you for reading my comments today; and thank you for providing captions so I can understand you!

  • @susellis493
    @susellis493 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Dr. Graeme, wow just wow.
    I love that you don't use rose-coloured glasses to view our collective past, even if the resulting true picture is not a pretty one.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Thanks SusAnne. I think it is important to be aware of the darker aspects of human nature, especially now when Europe is at war again, so that we can truly appreciate all the good in people too.

  • @ingridkolobaric2389
    @ingridkolobaric2389 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Hard video... but so informative! Thank You ❤

  • @RG-jj7yz
    @RG-jj7yz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Hello Graeme,
    Not sure if I can watch this..
    My German professor at uni (mid 1980's), Frau Bergman once told me, her disabled cousin, a girl, was taken away and she never saw her again. I was friends with the German language assistant, Klaus. His mother met Hitler in the German Youth..
    Anyway..
    Regards,
    Rachel
    NB. May I possibly contact you in the future regarding a situation where a person I know, I now realise, has been kept home as a slave their whole life (I worked out they have two learning disabilities (one rare) which were never diagnosed..).
    This is a genuine situation.
    Many thanks.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sadly, Aktion T4 is not ancient history - it is within living memory. Regarding you situation - I cannot give professional advice through this medium - but depending on which country you live in there should be Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults laws and services to request help from.

  • @buttercxpdraws8101
    @buttercxpdraws8101 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just discovered your channel! Fascinating ✌️💕🌻

  • @neweyes777
    @neweyes777 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    My prayer is that should this type of evil ever raise its ugly head again, that enough good men will rise up and end it.

  • @indigocheetah4172
    @indigocheetah4172 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thank you , Professor Yorston ; I can not understand why these educated , and intelligent people , became monsters. This is what concerns me that we too can also become cruel , and despise people , who are dependent on us for their care, support.and well being. I can't imagine hurting another even if the circumstances allowed for such heinous crimes. We must never forget this time in history. By repeatedly sharing the horrific crimes against humanity , we are reminded of their fate. And we are shocked , and still cannot fathom the suffering of the people condemned to suffer from the Nazis , and others who did nothing.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I think it is all too easy for civilised countries to descend into barbarism.

    • @CrustyUgg
      @CrustyUgg ปีที่แล้ว

      Many women abort their babies once they're told the child will have Down's syndrome

    • @tandiparent1906
      @tandiparent1906 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@professorgraemeyorstonSad but also both true & scary.
      Thank U for this very well researched video; a new subscriber from SW. Oklahoma, U. S. A.

  • @davidmarsden192
    @davidmarsden192 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    That is the scariest part of this time in history: How the average citizen, in all the wrong conditions, can create a perfect storm of chilling evil and perform unspeakable deeds like this.

  • @courageisthecure
    @courageisthecure ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for this episode

  • @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625
    @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    strangely enough goebels had a dibbled foot, but they didn't sterilize him or send him to concentration camp.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Strange that! Hitler probably had Parkinson's disease but I bet no-one suggested carting him off!

    • @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625
      @knoxvillehermitfreemoviesm3625 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      a most excellent point.
      also the holocaust was like a vortex swallowing everything in its path and wouldn't have stopped till every human on earth was dead except for hitler all by himself.

    • @LittleKitty22
      @LittleKitty22 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hitler was Jewish too... yup! I have always found that people hate the most that which they are themselves. Reverse racism, ie hating one's own people. It's more common than most people think!

    • @braniefanie4938
      @braniefanie4938 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@professorgraemeyorstonTMH God has something far better planned for them in hades😊😂🎉

  • @963ag
    @963ag 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Different versions of these types of programs are ongoing today - in various countries.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'd love to hear more - which countries?

    • @963ag
      @963ag 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@professorgraemeyorston The U.S. for one - forced sterilizations and abuse in immigration detention centers, denial of medical treatment for certain populations, the wide disparitys during the pandemic, ( look at Indian reservations) what goes on in nursing homes, how the mentally ill are often criminalized and too many police departments aren't equipped to handle them, the poor elderly often witheld life- saving medical care and overdosed on morphine etc. to provide hospital beds for those less likely to linger, U.S. politicians actually using the words "useless eaters" ( coined by the Nazis) when referring to the disabled... those receiving SSI and SSDI ( some are even veterans!) forced to survive on up to 125% below the poverty level!

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@963ag Thanks Annette. I agree that the risk of descending even further to the Nazi policies is never too far away, however civilised a nation may think it is.

    • @tandiparent1906
      @tandiparent1906 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@professorgraemeyorston😢Plus it's scary if people were to stop & realize that the government has a record of all of us who are currently on disability, including the fact that they know exactly where all of us live, including all of our disabled veterans.

    • @braniefanie4938
      @braniefanie4938 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@963agthey often use the term “prawns and shrimps” for “bottom of the pile people”( naturally they’re just talking on reflection of course😂)

  • @cranberry7266
    @cranberry7266 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Such an informative video being easy to understand even after the first listen. This helped me thoroughly understand the T4 Program whilst under 20 mins. Nevertheless still a much disturbing topic to cover. Your work is very much appreciated!

  • @willman9567
    @willman9567 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This is coming back in Canada. Some of the practices about abortion have been in line with this mindset all this time. Scary.

  • @Mike-jw4xh
    @Mike-jw4xh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The arrogance of these people was off the charts, deciding who could live or not. Much like our corrupt politicians today!!

  • @ThePanda5001
    @ThePanda5001 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Unbelievable!!! How cruel were they? My dad was born with a hair lip and cleft pallet, so this shocked me even more 😢

  • @AnthonyWard-c7e
    @AnthonyWard-c7e 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Good doco.

  • @craigkelly4278
    @craigkelly4278 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I been studying this stuff for last 20+ years and have known about this program for some time. Also visited Auschwitz Conctration Camp back in October of 2022 for second time in my life. I also have Cerebral Palsy. My mother said something to me on my Frist trip to the Camp. While we stood by Block ten where experiments where carried out. I said. They would have Killed me as soon as they knew I had Cerebral Palsy. In the Gas chamber or shot me on the spot. If I was lucky. My mother said "she would have been killed" I realise now that the true victory over this is 1.never forgetting it happened 2. For every person that is born with some form of disability. Or Jew that is born into this world after the war is a small victory over anything that is Anti-life or Nazism as a whole. Respect to those that fought for freedom Against Nazism.
    PS not all Germans where Nazis

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thanks Craig, I agree. My own trip to Auschwitz was one of the most moving experiences of my life.

  • @Thiagomp82
    @Thiagomp82 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The way things are going here in BrazilI can uderstand how could só many People support such a thing. And as a disabled I'm afraid history repeats.

  • @deecawford
    @deecawford 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I learn more horrendous things that happened every single day. I’m sick. I’m also in prayer that God heals this land so this never happens again. Never forget and never stop teaching this

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Thank you, it's easy learning about this, but it is important that we don't forget.

    • @CitizenX815
      @CitizenX815 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I love how you Christians ignore the fact that if your God exists, he watches people commit to these atrocities and does absolutely nothing...making him a salacious bloodthirsty maniacal beast!

  • @cw4608
    @cw4608 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was a horrible period in modern history. It would however, be interesting to see studies on present day disability rates in Germany today. Are their rates lower, or the same, as countries who did not practice this sick practice.

  • @richardwebb2348
    @richardwebb2348 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    So many images flashed across the screen for such a short period is disracting. A warning for those with even mild vestibular-like symptoms would be helpful. The commentary was excellent, but I had to look away from the screen to avoid dizziness.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Sorry about that, I have tried to make the videos dynamic and visually rich but I'll add a warning.

  • @heikkijhautanen4576
    @heikkijhautanen4576 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Brutal......

  • @proud2bpagan
    @proud2bpagan ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would've been on the docket for them...i'm Bipolar(fmr. known as manic depressive),and so would my brother...who had cp,Asperger's syndrome,and syncope.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It is a terrible thought. They killed approximately 0.3% of the total population but tended to focus of those in institutional care, if you were able to work or fight - they had other uses for you.

  • @rhondagarrison3221
    @rhondagarrison3221 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank u for showing the kusserow family, they were faithful to Jehovah, 2 of the brothers were put to death.

  • @pshiel
    @pshiel ปีที่แล้ว +2

    They caused alot of suffering. How many million severely disabled don't exist today or won't ever because of this.

  • @zxtenn
    @zxtenn 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Let's remember MANY states in the US practiced similar things prior to that being done in Germany under the 3rd Reich. In their eyes supporting people unable to work or produce for their entire life were considered 'useless eaters' as they cost the Country $$$$ to keep them alive.

  • @theseeker4642
    @theseeker4642 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    We need to remember, that both America & Russia, raced to get the German scientists who tested gravity & other barbaric test of space travel, on the expendible victims of concentration camps into their employ as well. This is why both countries were ahead in the space race. Nothing to be proud of surely !

  • @Flo-lows2798
    @Flo-lows2798 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I have autism and A.D.H.D and I’m German and this hurts and makes me sick

  • @charleschase1300
    @charleschase1300 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    That Catholic bishop had balls.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He was one of the few who was brave enough to openly criticise the Nazi regime.

    • @hildahilpert5018
      @hildahilpert5018 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      However as a Catholic and someone whose father was German ,I think he should have done more.And certainly Pope Pious XI should have denounced Hitler.

  • @camillechang7120
    @camillechang7120 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I hate say this people will never admit that this how Americans treated the disabled

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lots of countries did the same and "voluntary" euthanasia for mental health problems seems to be on the increase internationally.

  • @hunnybadger442
    @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Have the Heart of an Ethereal Artist...
    Fueled by Inner Fire and Forged Burning Strength...
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    Bring Light and Hope to Those Who find Themselves Lost and Alone in the Darkness...
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    Free from Judgment, Stigma, Shame, Rejection, Abandonment, Condemnation, and Prejudice...
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    That We can be Confident, Proud and Secure in the Sustainability of the World We have built...
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    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Elizabeth, what is this?

    • @hunnybadger442
      @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@professorgraemeyorston I write and make memes as a hobby but I despise most social media so I don't post them... Lol

  • @luciacurtis2381
    @luciacurtis2381 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh goodness what an awful awful end so very sad

  • @AdrienneReneau-ky4sc
    @AdrienneReneau-ky4sc 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THOSE AKTIONS PROGRAMS WERE A DEEP SECRET

  • @bunnygirl2448
    @bunnygirl2448 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder: if the german “final solution” had not tarnished the reputation of the eugenics movements, would forced sterilization of the mentally ill, and eugenics movements, continued worldwide

  • @hunnybadger442
    @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Life unworthy of life

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว

      Chilling phrase!

    • @hunnybadger442
      @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@professorgraemeyorston well us "useless eaters" are still rather nervous even after the election

  • @robertburnett9260
    @robertburnett9260 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's extremely sad how much dangerous for the human race decided to play God through out human history.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes, I don't know who deserves greater blame, the politicians who instigated the programme or the doctors and nurses who carried it out.

  • @matthewdeacon1970
    @matthewdeacon1970 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Dear Professor, at 16:15 you show a picture of the large Kusserow family while mentioning ordinary people becoming Hitlers executioners. I don't know why you displayed their photo at this point, nor do I want to say anything that would question your knowledge or intentions, but in order to avoid confusion on anyone's part I would like to mention that the Kusserow family were Jehovah's Witnesses and never once compromised in the slightest with Hitlers regime. Two of the sons were "executed" by bullet and guillotine for this, and the mother and at least one daughter were interned in Ravensbruck concentration camp. Not one family member compromised during the whole time. A most interesting video on the subject is available on JW Broadcasting.
    Yours Sincerely,
    Matthew

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you Matthew, my intention was to find a picture of an ordinary family to make the point that everyone was at risk of being drawn into the Nazi regime's actions, not to imply that this family was in any way involved. I should have made this clearer and I apologise if I have caused offence.

  • @philip.morris
    @philip.morris 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    They were also put on sedatives and starved to death. It was pure Evil.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I find it hard to understand how a cultured and civilised nation could descend into such barbarism so quickly.

    • @philip.morris
      @philip.morris 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@professorgraemeyorston Thats the worrying thing. The Germans were advanced in arts, philosophy,medicine and culture in general. I think that if it could happen in Germany, it could happen in the UK,USA and any other country. Good video on such a grim subject matter.

  • @jakegarvin7634
    @jakegarvin7634 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finding out the cause of what happened in Germany in the 1930's will truly help our species find salvation

  • @valeriacustis372
    @valeriacustis372 ปีที่แล้ว

    why must WE NEVER FORGET WHEN SOCIETY IS DOING THE SAME THING AGAIN NOW... how are people trying to save others' lives and what is their meaning of happiness except to bring folks into a chopping block... A lot of others wear two faces and soon they probably will collide into each other

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว

      I agree that societies can very quickly descend into the barbarism exhibited by the Nazis and other totalitarian regimes.

  • @francescagillon2018
    @francescagillon2018 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It is interesting to know that it all started with a german couple's request to put an end to a child's intolerable handicap.
    Have you ever considered probing A. Hitler's mental health?

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have thought about trying to do Hitler, but it is such a huge topic!

  • @margiesoapyhairbillian4754
    @margiesoapyhairbillian4754 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    BUT the Kiser had a grandchild with downs syndrome that lived into the 1980s. Its who your related to. She was sent to a special school. This was the child of the crown prince.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +4

      She probably survived because her family didn't try to hide her away in an institution.

    • @margiesoapyhairbillian4754
      @margiesoapyhairbillian4754 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They sent her to the " best" schools for people with developmental disabilities. She had downs syndrome. She was also "sub- human " but royal. As a mother of a child with disabilities it makes me want to scream.

  • @miss.phyllisreneefoster9547
    @miss.phyllisreneefoster9547 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    IT'S GOING ON TODAY IN AMERICA BUT IN A UNDERCOVER WAY I BELIEVE IT'S GOING ON TODAY IN AMERICA FOR RESEARCH STUDIES THIS IS A VERY HORRIBLE VERY HORRIBLE
    BACK THIN AND WHAT SECRETLY GOING ON NOW TERRIBLE HORRIBLE INHUMAN

  • @panda-wk8mv
    @panda-wk8mv 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    i would have been killed before I was about 8 and my teachers started to actualy see my potential, before that they sat me outside the classroom (in the 90s) because I didn't fit in with the class. even in the 90s it was only when they realised I was actualy ahead in my reading and maths etc. that they started egaging in actualy teaching me (but it was the 90s and being AFAB and autistic was not heared of much yet)

  • @NicolasSchaII
    @NicolasSchaII 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks for the video. We shall never forget. Crazy what human beings are able to do to other human beings. Beyond anything a wild animal could ever do.
    But one question: I think you said the UK was one of just countries which didn't do forced sterilization due to eugenics. Is this actually true? This was some decades later, but as far as I know, the legendary Alan Turing had to undergo this because of his homosexuality. So it has been a case in the UK? Maybe you can help me out

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Interesting question - his "treatment" wasn't motivated by eugenics ideas but by ideas that homosexuality was an illness that could be treated.

  • @CCLilja
    @CCLilja 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Germans went to my native Sweden to learn all about Eugenics.

  • @rocklover7437
    @rocklover7437 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Video Bill Gates Palliative Health Care

  • @annerigby4400
    @annerigby4400 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very distressing, but very interesting video, as always. While watching it, I kept wondering how nurses could just stand by and watch as the children and adults under their care were treated so inhumanely and killed. Surely, the nurses who cared for these children had to have had some doubts about it all? I will never understand how doctors could commit such acts, but then it was a different time and there was a propaganda machine in place, but still, I don't understand. Then again, I struggle to understand how anyone can get caught up in a cult and not notice that they are being used, abused and exploited. There is no real difference between the gov't of a country misleading its people (let's face it many of the people who were 'into' hitler, are no different from people all over the world who are 'into' trump or putin or that little guy in North Korea, just to name a few of the many) and a cult leader misleading groups of people, apart from the scale. People are people everywhere and there are always those who think in terms of "the other" as the enemy, the cause of all problems, etc. It is terrifying to think how relatively easy it is, as you say, to turn honest, decent people into worshipers of evil.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I agree that is the real lesson from the holocaust is how easy it is to turn a civilised nation into a murderous regime.

    • @annerigby4400
      @annerigby4400 ปีที่แล้ว

      @eduardmedrea1930 Yes, I expect so, but it is still incomprehensible to me and quite terrifying.

    • @jucat60
      @jucat60 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @eduardmedrea1930 I am a nurse and totally disagree with your comment. There are only very few and that could be through burn out. I have been a nurse for 35 years and now work with disability clients I care for them as much as ever,

    • @braniefanie4938
      @braniefanie4938 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@professorgraemeyorstonwell,. As I’ve been told “it’s a job tho innit”🤮

  • @mousemd
    @mousemd 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I was fortunate enough to get to see the Holocaust Museum in Israel. If you want to call it fortunate or lucky to see one of those

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I visited Auschwitz and as you say it is not an easy thing to do, but strangely life-affirming.

  • @gastonbouchard9330
    @gastonbouchard9330 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very good video. Please do Hitler. I'd like to know what was wrong with his brain/mind.

  • @hunnybadger442
    @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am one of those useless eaters

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is plenty to go round!

    • @hunnybadger442
      @hunnybadger442 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@professorgraemeyorston yes unfortunately it seldom gets to those who need it... It breaks my heart how most suffering and struggles these as are unnecessary if not for the will of those in power

    • @LittleKitty22
      @LittleKitty22 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. I'm in the UK so I actually get called that - by medical staff. I had food and water withheld when I was in hospital - not for medical reasons. All since I became severely disabled.

    • @ghostmanscores1666
      @ghostmanscores1666 ปีที่แล้ว

      @LittleKitty22= FAKE BOT CHANNEL

  • @moondancer4660
    @moondancer4660 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why did they kill them with painful chemicals? I'm sure that they had plenty of morphine or any type of drug that would put them to sleep forever without causing them pain at all.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cleaning chemicals were cheaper.

    • @teijaflink2226
      @teijaflink2226 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because they didn't see them as human, just like those parents who called their own child a monster and wanted him dead.

  • @davidjohntough9115
    @davidjohntough9115 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The evil man is capable of! Warning from history.

  • @thelawisthelaw
    @thelawisthelaw 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not just jews thats very offensive. The disabled were not just jews. My muslim grandfather MILOUD BEN AZZOUZI in dachau concentration camp was not a jew.

  • @CyberPinoy63
    @CyberPinoy63 27 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Decision of the FEW. But Carry out by the MANY.

  • @harveypost1841
    @harveypost1841 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Could been the mustard gas from WWI

  • @Rodimus-ke4dg
    @Rodimus-ke4dg ปีที่แล้ว +3

    This still goes on in America... Shit.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have heard about forced sterilisations, but euthanasia?

    • @LittleKitty22
      @LittleKitty22 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@professorgraemeyorston Here in the UK they do euthanasia of the disabled, the poor and the old. The government started an absolute hate campaign against the disabled in about 2014, but the hatred towards the poor and the disabled existed long before. I became severely disabled in 2021, the abuse I've suffered since then - from medical staff and other authorities - needs to be seen to be believed! I had it before because I've always been assumed to be poor (no idea why!), but the abuse has gone through the roof since I became disabled!
      They've tried their utmost to kill me off with heavy tranquilizers that stop breathing and stop the heart, which is the method they use here (check out the Midazolam Murders) - the more I refused, the more abuse and threats, and refusal of all medical treatment, I got!
      Please note that I am physically disabled, not mentally.
      I've been told for the last 20 years that I'm "not good enough to live", a "useless eater" and a "parasite". Now I'm also being told that I'm a "useless c r ! p p l e ".
      I've lost count how many times I wanted to apologize for still being alive!

    • @alexs.818
      @alexs.818 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@professorgraemeyorstononly a few states in the US offer physician assisted suicide, however it requires the full consent of the person requesting it. Also they have to be of sound mind and not hindered by any cognitive disability. Physical assisted suicide without the requester’s approval is outlawed, however families can make a final determination to end the life of a loved one who is clinically deceased and on life support.

  • @tinabrenner3562
    @tinabrenner3562 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Natur takes care of all that in anything living if we were not constantly interfering
    And there is no daubt Nature knows best

  • @rogermoore-gd9do
    @rogermoore-gd9do 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    End the suffering said the fuhrur!

  • @skymabile2855
    @skymabile2855 ปีที่แล้ว

    4:29 Britain started eugenics? Yeesh! That means Ozwell E. Spencer is real. Resident Evil vibes anyone?

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว

      Eugenics is an idea, British academics were among the first to write about it.

  • @moondancer4660
    @moondancer4660 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The rich Elite people Were the ones who wanted to see this happen

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hitler was elected. All sections of society allowed this to happen.

  • @kc3718
    @kc3718 ปีที่แล้ว

    as one whi woudl have been a subject for the process, I don't find this aspect of history a shock as the vulnerable and different are largely hunted and hounded, distrusted and despised in modern western society, and subject to economic and social apartheid. There resides in many folks minds the will do get staisfaction from bullying and disdain and feeling erroneously superior. Just as people take from the future and degrade the present to live selfishly uinsustainable materialistic lives , so they take from fellow man to featehr their nest. Just my experience, education and comprehension ...

  • @draco9513
    @draco9513 16 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So fking based

  • @vmvds
    @vmvds ปีที่แล้ว

    i think eugenetics is very logical. if you want to progresss as a species you make sure the weakest individuals cant procrastinate. and its even better when they are dead because they are just using up resources. im not saying that i agree but its certainly logical

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว

      It depends on how you define progress.

    • @vmvds
      @vmvds ปีที่แล้ว

      @@professorgraemeyorston well, imagine all the resources spent annually on the weakest individuals who could never contribute anything to society and imagine spending those resources on research and development to make the world a better place. humans getting stronger, smarter and richer every generation

    • @Dietconsulting
      @Dietconsulting ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@vmvdstwo flaws to your argument.
      1) You assume people with disabilities cannot contribute to the future of society. I wonder how many of the "eccentric" scientists would be euthanized as children
      2) What about acquired disability? We don't remove that through genetic screening.
      By saying euthanasia is logical the end point would be my family would not exist. Yet we have contributed as health professionals for 5 generations despite disabilities

  • @Progressive2024
    @Progressive2024 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Watching this after seeing the republicans bully Gus walz

  • @ottoheinrichwehmann2252
    @ottoheinrichwehmann2252 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    BY THE WAY ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::How many ABORTIONS in UK in 2023?::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

  • @salirenses
    @salirenses ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Perhaps this way will realize the danger of a euthanasia law

  • @mk-apache6161
    @mk-apache6161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Sounds like a bunch of bs, slander.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      You don't believe in the holocaust?

    • @mk-apache6161
      @mk-apache6161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@professorgraemeyorston how do you people always have these very elaborate accusations just always loaded up in the arsenal, it's comical, every time without fail. I hadn't even thought about "the holocaust" . Tbh Idc for it, we have a whole genocide over here to worry about.

    • @mk-apache6161
      @mk-apache6161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@professorgraemeyorston I dont believe in the holocaust as if it were some sort of higher power, if that's what you mean. But either way it's just totally irrelevant to I am completely unbiased in the topic. Now don't get me started on those dam Jews tho, and the mexicans.

    • @zupnanazwa
      @zupnanazwa 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@mk-apache6161 No, you dont understand. Aktion T4 is just a part of the Holocaust. Because as most people falsely think Holocaust is not only about the jews. Its about targeting the enemies of the Reich, meaning that the disabled, Jews, Soviets, Poles, gypsies etc. Were targeted as their blood was "diluted". It was part of their ideology and they did it intentionally

  • @navenkakiveic6588
    @navenkakiveic6588 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeah, that monsterst stil today inzist alraund world, so big careful😳

  • @Miami1991
    @Miami1991 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Canada.

    • @professorgraemeyorston
      @professorgraemeyorston  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I understand that efforts are being made to criminalise forced sterilization in the Canadian Senate