Whatever proportions these crimes [of the Nazi doctors] finally assumed,
it became evident... that they had started from small beginnings.... It
started with the acceptance of the attitude... that there is such a thing
as a life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages
concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually
the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to
encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the
racially unwanted and finally all non-Germans. -- Leo Alexander,
consultant at the Nuremberg Trials
No comments:
Post a Comment