The murder of patients, people in need of care or the socially excluded was the first systematic mass extermination of the National Socialist regime. It was developed and organised by the ›Central Office T4‹ – named after the address Tiergartenstrasse 4 in Berlin. More than 70,000 institutional patients were murdered by gas in the T4 killing centres by the time the programme was interrupted due to unrest in the population on 24 August 1941. The killings began in the occupied territories of Poland upon the outbreak of war and were continued throughout the German Reich and in many occupied territories, particularly in the east, even after the official suspension of the ›euthanasia‹ programme. The estimated total number of victims is 300,000. Since 2 September 2014, the Federal Republic of Germany has commemorated these crimes and their repercussions to the present day with the Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist ›Euthanasia‹ Killings.weiterlesen