Euthanasia

“As early as 1935, Hitler had told his Reich Medical Leader Gerhard Wagner that ‘if war came, he would take up and carry out this question of euthanasia, because it was easier to do so in wartime.’ The decree was immediately carried out in respect to the mentally sick, and between December, 1939, and August, 1941, about fifty thousand Germans were killed with carbon-monoxide gas in institutions where the death rooms were disguised exactly as they later were in Auschwitz—as shower rooms and bathrooms.” – Hannah Arendt