Newsgroups: alt.revisionism From: Ken McVaySubject: Holocaust Almanac: Celebrate the Ten Thousandth Victim Summary: Nazi murderers have a party to celebrate their 10,000th 'euthanasia' victim.. Followup-To: alt.revisionism Organization: The Nizkor Project, Canada Keywords: Hadamar,Wahlmann Archive/File: places/euthanasia/hadamar.01 Last-modified: 1994/12/11 "The year after the disassembling of the gas chamber (which had killed ten thousand patients in less than a year of operation),* a new physicial named Adolf Wahlmann became medical director at Hadamar, an institution he had headed before the First World War and again in the mid-1930s. Wahlmann had joined the Nazi Party in 1933, but had been in some difficulty with the Party for what it perceived to be his greated commitment to a church choir he led.<17> Called out of retirement at the age of sixty-six to help with mental-hospital work before being transferred to Hadamar, he claimed at his later Frankfurt trial to have had no knowledge of the killing prior to his arrival. Whatever the truth of that claim, when Wahlmann arrived the chief administrator was then in the process of implementing a killing procedure, in which the chief doctor was expected to give orders to the head male nurse to kill male patients, and the head female nurse to do the same to female patients. When informed of that procedure by the administrator, Wahlmann refused to do so indiscriminately, insisting upon going about things more methodically -- that is, medically. He developed his own `professional' system: he observed patients arriving on transports, made daily rounds, and studied medical records. He then held morning conferences, where these observations were considered along with patients' records, and then would decide who was to be killed and what does of what drug was to be used.<18>" <16> Klee, "Euthanasie" p. 336 <17> Ibid., p.170 <18> Hadamar Trial, especially pp. 162-63, 174-87 * "The ten thousandth victim at Hadamar had been celebrated as a milestone, as reported by an employee. Invited by a T4 doctor named Berner, the employees gathered that evening. Each was given a bottle of beer, and they adjourned to the basement. `There on a stretcher lay a naked male corpse with a huge hydrocepalic head.... I am certain that it was a real dead person and not a paper corpse. The dead person was put by the cremation personnel on a sort of trough and shoved into the cremation oven. Hereupon [the administrator] Maerkle, who had made himself look like a sort of minister, held a burial sermon.' Another witness reported that the celebration, which included music, degenerated further into a drunken procession through the institution grounds.<16>" (Lifton, 100) T4 - The camouflage organization created for the medical killing of adults was known as the Reich Work Group of Sanatoriums and Nursing Homes (Reichsarbeitsgemeinschaft Heil- und Pflegeanstalten, or RAG). It operated from the Berlin Chancellery, at Tiergarten 4, hence the "T4" code name. Works Cited: Lifton, Robert Jay. THE NAZI DOCTORS: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide. London: Papermac, 1986 (Reprinted 1990)
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