"During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. …
"During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. From early on, the German Medical Society played the most instrumental role in the Nazi medical program, beginning with the marginalization of Jewish physicians, proceeding to coerced “experimentation,” “euthanization,” and sterilization, and culminating in genocide via the medicalization of mass murder of Jews and others caricatured and demonized by Nazi ideology. Given the medical oath to “do no harm,” many postwar ethical analyses have strained to make sense of these seemingly paradoxical atrocities. Why did physicians act in such a manner? Yet few have tried to explain the self-selected Nazi enrollment of such an overwhelming proportion of the German Medical Society in the first place."
And...:
Useless Eaters: Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany
The Journal of Special Education/Catholic Culture, 2002
It is important to note that the enactment of prejudice against people with disabilities in Nazi Germany could not have succeeded without the complicity of the medical and adjunct professions. Power over life and death was placed firmly in the hands of physicians who became white-coated executioners, having long abandoned the "do no harm" clause of the Hippocratic Oath. Currently, there is evidence of the medical community's again being willing agents in hastening the deaths of people deemed not viable, including people with disabilities, through familiar methods for ending the lives of terminally ill people, such as starvation and death by thirst. Furthermore, there is evidence that "do no harm" is now viewed as a somewhat quaint throwback to a distant, less sophisticated era. For example, many physicians no longer take the Hippocratic Oath before beginning their careers, and many standard hospital treatment protocols now stipulate that staff physicians may override next-of-kin requests for patient treatment if the physician decides that treatment will likely be ineffective (Smith, 2000). Once again, patients, including those with disabilities who are terminally ill, now bear the responsibility of justifying their existence and their need for treatment. This being the case, and with the clear understanding that not all physicians put the greater good ahead of their individual patients, there should at least be some debate about what this means for people with disabilities, many of whom rely extensively on the assumption that their physicians have their best individual treatment interests at heart and will treat them regardless of utilitarian arguments to the contrary."
FF Note: While the Catholic Charities piece focuses on disabilities as a marker for extermination, what constituted disabilities in Nazi Germany went beyond our current understanding of them. To be disobedient, 'asocial' was to be "disabled." Those of us who've challenged the narrative, refused to mask or jab would've been deemed 'asocial' in Nazi Germany. And "euthanized" or sterilized, depending on the level of 'criminality' our "disability" is accompanied by.
There's been an explosion of Behavioral Health programs with social workers in nearly every community around the nation in the past decade, especially since 2020. State and county budgets reflect it. Those are the people who would be tasked with determining the "disability" of political dissidents. Who would be tasked with marking us for extermination. Not hyperbole.
Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder
"3 - How government, private industry, and civil society can work together in the short term to help protect underrepresented groups, and engage disaffected populations who have lost faith in evidence-based reality" (i.e. "dissociated" from reality)
All managed in pre-WW2 Germany by IBM punch cards. I wonder how much the Nazis paid doctors to identify and then kill or sterilize each coded "undesirable.
Doctors like Victor Brack didn't need any monetary incentive. They got off on killing and sterilizing "undesirables." Actual joy and elation at each improvement in murderous efficiency.
Why did so many German doctors join the Nazi Party early?
International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, October 3, 2012
https://sci-hub.se/http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2012.09.022,
"During the Weimar Republic in the mid-twentieth century, more than half of all German physicians became early joiners of the Nazi Party, surpassing the party enrollments of all other professions. From early on, the German Medical Society played the most instrumental role in the Nazi medical program, beginning with the marginalization of Jewish physicians, proceeding to coerced “experimentation,” “euthanization,” and sterilization, and culminating in genocide via the medicalization of mass murder of Jews and others caricatured and demonized by Nazi ideology. Given the medical oath to “do no harm,” many postwar ethical analyses have strained to make sense of these seemingly paradoxical atrocities. Why did physicians act in such a manner? Yet few have tried to explain the self-selected Nazi enrollment of such an overwhelming proportion of the German Medical Society in the first place."
And...:
Useless Eaters: Disability as Genocidal Marker in Nazi Germany
The Journal of Special Education/Catholic Culture, 2002
https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7019
"Complicity of the Medical Professions
It is important to note that the enactment of prejudice against people with disabilities in Nazi Germany could not have succeeded without the complicity of the medical and adjunct professions. Power over life and death was placed firmly in the hands of physicians who became white-coated executioners, having long abandoned the "do no harm" clause of the Hippocratic Oath. Currently, there is evidence of the medical community's again being willing agents in hastening the deaths of people deemed not viable, including people with disabilities, through familiar methods for ending the lives of terminally ill people, such as starvation and death by thirst. Furthermore, there is evidence that "do no harm" is now viewed as a somewhat quaint throwback to a distant, less sophisticated era. For example, many physicians no longer take the Hippocratic Oath before beginning their careers, and many standard hospital treatment protocols now stipulate that staff physicians may override next-of-kin requests for patient treatment if the physician decides that treatment will likely be ineffective (Smith, 2000). Once again, patients, including those with disabilities who are terminally ill, now bear the responsibility of justifying their existence and their need for treatment. This being the case, and with the clear understanding that not all physicians put the greater good ahead of their individual patients, there should at least be some debate about what this means for people with disabilities, many of whom rely extensively on the assumption that their physicians have their best individual treatment interests at heart and will treat them regardless of utilitarian arguments to the contrary."
FF Note: While the Catholic Charities piece focuses on disabilities as a marker for extermination, what constituted disabilities in Nazi Germany went beyond our current understanding of them. To be disobedient, 'asocial' was to be "disabled." Those of us who've challenged the narrative, refused to mask or jab would've been deemed 'asocial' in Nazi Germany. And "euthanized" or sterilized, depending on the level of 'criminality' our "disability" is accompanied by.
There's been an explosion of Behavioral Health programs with social workers in nearly every community around the nation in the past decade, especially since 2020. State and county budgets reflect it. Those are the people who would be tasked with determining the "disability" of political dissidents. Who would be tasked with marking us for extermination. Not hyperbole.
Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/commission-on-information-disorder/
"3 - How government, private industry, and civil society can work together in the short term to help protect underrepresented groups, and engage disaffected populations who have lost faith in evidence-based reality" (i.e. "dissociated" from reality)
Not a bunch of nobodies:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/commission-on-information-disorder/meet-the-commissioners/
All managed in pre-WW2 Germany by IBM punch cards. I wonder how much the Nazis paid doctors to identify and then kill or sterilize each coded "undesirable.
Doctors like Victor Brack didn't need any monetary incentive. They got off on killing and sterilizing "undesirables." Actual joy and elation at each improvement in murderous efficiency.