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Message: [QUOTE="Cornu Ammonis, post: 1797851, member: 11634"] It’s worth remembering that the holocaust began not with the Jewish community but as an extension of the Nazi eugenics programme. In 1939, the Nazis moved from sterilising those with disabilities or other “undesirable” traits to murdering children under 3 - ostensibly placing the children into “care” and telling the parents they died of natural causes at a later date. In reality, they were murdered by overdose or being left to starve. To argue that the disabled were not an intended target is wilfully dismissive. I agree there was opportunistic mass murder but the holocaust was pervasive and more inclusive than the society that birthed it. When the Nazis shifted gears to include adults in their genocide programme, they needed to increase their efficiency and potency of their execution methods by switching to gas. They disguised the gas chambers as showers at this point and the rest, as they say, is history. And none of this should be forgotten or glossed over by weight of numbers or what their ultimate goal might have been. The path to the holocaust is paved with the bones of the most vulnerable in any society. Even Asperger, who has been championed as an Oscar Schindler-esque protector of the disabled, was a Nazi murderer - sending children to their deaths based on sitting down with them and their families, earning their trust and then using that to help sort the German population into grotesque keep or reject piles. Berg, the inventor of EEG (which he hoped to use to prove psychic powers existed), was worse and the medical establishment colluded with the Nazis to rid Germany of those deemed too infirm or ill to be kept alive. Maybe this hits home more for me as under that regime I would almost certainly have been sterilised. Possibly my children too if I had had them by then. Then we would have probably been rounded up and sent to an early camp or medical centre to be murdered because economically Germany would be better off without having to care for us. They may have hated the Jews but the disabled were just figures on a balance sheet to them. [/QUOTE]

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