PHILIPP BOUHLER
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Philipp Bouhler - NSDAP Aktion T4
Philipp Bouhler was responsible for the killing of disabled German citizens. By order of Hitler (backdated to 1 September 1939), Bouhler with Karl Brandt developed the Nazis' early euthanasia program, Aktion T4 in which mentally ill and physically handicapped people were killed. The actual implementation was supervised by Bouhler.
Various methods of killing were tried out. The first killing facility was Schloss Hartheim in Upper Austria. The knowledge gained from the euthanasia program was later applied to the industrialized annihilation of other groups of people, such as Jewish
people, in the Holocaust.
He saw killing off less useful citizens as a way of improving economic output. Something similar to health services not giving care to the elderly, since they are no longer productive workers.
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