They were already gloomy and now with sanctions against Russia....
"Germany opens memorial to Nazis’ disabled victims" Associated Press September 03, 2014
BERLIN — Germany on Tuesday inaugurated a memorial to more than 200,000 people with physical and mental disabilities killed by the Nazis after their lives were deemed ‘‘worthless.’’
Sigh.
The transparent 79-foot blue-glass wall outside the Berlin Philharmonic concert hall is near memorials to the Jewish Holocaust victims and the Nazis’ gay and Gypsy, or Roma, victims, opened over the past decade.
I don't need to be reminded.
Maybe you do: The Great Holocaust Mystery: Reconsidering the Evidence
It stands on the site of a villa where the murder of patients at hospitals and mental institutes was coordinated. More than 70,000 people were gassed at centers for what the Nazis described as their euthanasia operation, coded ‘‘T4’’ in reference to the building’s address, Tiergartenstrasse 4, in 1940 and 1941.
It saw ‘‘a technology of killing tested and carried out for the first time on defenseless, sick, and disabled people, a test run for all the Nazis’ following programs of mass eradication,’’ said Sigrid Falkenstein, whose aunt was sterilized and killed.
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"The center also has a history rooted in eugenics, a pseudoscience behind the ethnic cleansing of the Holocaust, according to city documents. Walter E. Fernald, the namesake of the Waltham center who served as its superintendent from 1888 to 1924, sat on the Eugenics Society’s board and at one point advocated sterilizing mentally disabled people, according to city records. Abuses against patients in the 1940s and 1950s were exposed after parents, guardians, and advocates for the disabled sued the state in federal court in 1972, according to the city. During that time, Fernald residents were malnourished, poorly educated, and were even subjected to scientific experiments without their knowledge or consent. The practices included feeding the institution’s science club members radioactive material with their oatmeal, according to city documents."
Now you know where Hitler got his ideas.
Tens of thousands more were killed using methods such as injections and starvation, and mental patients were targeted by SS units in countries invaded by Nazi Germany.
The injections are at the bottom.
In all, estimates of the number of mentally and physically disabled people murdered under various Nazi euthanasia programs range from around 200,000 to 300,000.
Few of the administrators and doctors involved were brought to justice after World War II. Culture Minister Monika Gruetters said it had taken too long for Germany to publicly commemorate the long-ignored victims.
The memorial, which includes audio and video information on the program and its victims, confronts visitors with ‘‘a way of thinking that presumes to judge the worth of individual lives,’’ Gruetters said.
So when is the memorial for all the dead Gazans -- with accompanying racist statements made by Zionist Israelis -- due?
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"Mom of autistic girl pleads guilty to child abuse" Associated Press September 03, 2014
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A northern Michigan woman accused of trying to kill her autistic 14-year-old daughter after describing in an online blog the family’s struggles to raise her pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree child abuse.
Kelli Stapleton, 46, entered the plea the day before she was scheduled for trial in Benzie County Circuit Court on a charge of attempted murder, a year after police said she drove daughter Isabelle to an isolated spot, gave her sleep-inducing medication, and ignited charcoal in two grills inside a van, intending to kill both of them.
Isabelle has recovered after suffering carbon-monoxide poisoning that left her in a coma for several days, county prosecutor Sara Swanson said.
‘‘This was an extremely serious incident, which could have resulted in the death of an innocent child,’’ Swanson said. ‘‘A conviction of this felony carrying a maximum penalty of life in prison, and the prison sentence we expect it to carry, is the right resolution for the community, the defendant, and our victim, Isabelle.’’
Stapleton had intended to offer an insanity plea if the case had gone to trial but wanted a quicker conclusion to the case, defense attorney Heidi Hodek said.
‘‘Ultimately, Kelli didn’t want to put her family through any more,’’ Hodek said.
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