The Euthanasia trials (German: Euthanasie-Prozesse) were legal proceedings against the main perpetrators and accomplices involved in the "euthanasia" murders...
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Aktion T4 (redirect from T4 euthanasia)
campaign of mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The term was first used in post-war trials against doctors who had been involved in...
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Declaration of Helsinki Euthanasia trials Medical ethics Medical torture Nazi eugenics Nuremberg Code Nuremberg principles Nuremberg trials Bruno Beger Hans...
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Euthanasia in Canada in its legal voluntary form is called Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD, also spelled MAID) and it first became legal along with assisted...
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security guards worked in the euthanasia centres before transferring to the extermination camps. The first Euthanasia trials were carried out shortly after...
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The legality of euthanasia varies between countries and territories. Efforts to change government policies on euthanasia of humans in the 20th and 21st...
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camp, 1945–1948 Euthanasia trials, an overview of trials dealing specifically with the associated Nazi euthanasia programme Majdanek trials, the longest...
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Animal euthanasia (euthanasia from Greek: εὐθανασία; "good death") is the act of killing an animal humanely, most commonly with injectable drugs. Reasons...
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twenty years apart Dora Trial Euthanasia trials Frankfurt Auschwitz trials Majdanek trials, the longest Nazi war crimes trial in history, spanning over 30...
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trials focused on the actions of German professionals: the Doctors' trial focused on human experimentation and euthanasia murders, the Judges' trial on...
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Voluntary euthanasia is the purposeful ending of another person's life at their request, in order to relieve them of suffering. Voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted...
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and nurses who took part in the 'euthanasia' program would not be prosecuted for murder. During the postwar trials of these same individuals, they attempted...
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Hadamar killing centre (redirect from Hadamar Euthanasia Center)
NS-Tötungsanstalt Hadamar) was a killing facility involved in the Nazi involuntary euthanasia programme known as Aktion T4. It was housed within a psychiatric hospital...
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Child euthanasia is a form of euthanasia that is applied to children who are gravely ill or have significant birth defects. In 2005, the Netherlands became...
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such as SS-Oberscharführer Hubert Gomerski. He was acquitted in the euthanasia trials of 1947, which prosecuted persons known to have been involved in Action...
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Child euthanasia (German: Kinder-Euthanasie) was the name given to the organized killing of severely mentally and physically disabled children and young...
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Critics of euthanasia sometimes claim that legalizing any form of the practice will lead to a slippery slope effect, resulting eventually in non-voluntary...
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Jack Kevorkian (category Euthanasia activists)
Kevorkian (May 26, 1928 – June 3, 2011) was an American pathologist and euthanasia proponent. He publicly championed a terminal patient's right to die by...
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List of Nazi doctors (section Euthanasia)
Nazi Germany. This list is primarily split up into those who performed euthanasia through the Aktion T4 campaign, to those who primarily performed experiments...
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The Sonnenstein Euthanasia Clinic (German: NS-Tötungsanstalt Sonnenstein; literally "National Socialist Killing Centre Sonnenstein") was a Nazi killing...
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Karl Brandt (section Trial and execution)
Bouhler, the head of Hitler's Chancellery, to administer the Aktion T4 euthanasia program. Brandt was later appointed the Reich Commissioner of Health and...
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Viktor Brack (section Trial and execution)
Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder...
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Franz Suchomel (category People convicted in the Treblinka trials)
euthanasia program, in Operation Reinhard, and the Einsatzgruppen actions in the Adriatic operational zone. He was convicted at the Treblinka trials in...
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Philip Nitschke (category Euthanasia activists)
founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern...
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Euthanasia became legal in New Zealand when the End of Life Choice Act 2019 took full effect on 7 November 2021. It is illegal to "aid and abet suicide"...
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Heinrich Gross (section Euthanasia program)
Reaper' Doctor for Nazi-era Euthanasia of Children". JTA - Jewish Telegraphic Agency. March 21, 2000. "Ex-Nazi doctor's trial suspended". United Press International...
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Hartheim killing centre (redirect from Hartheim Euthanasia Center)
Hartheim, sometimes translated as "Hartheim killing facility" or "Hartheim euthanasia centre") was a killing facility involved in the German Nazi programme...
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Paul Nitsche (section Euthanasia)
endorsement of the Third Reich's euthanasia authorization and who later headed the Medical Office of the T-4 Euthanasia Program. Nitsche was born in 1876...
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Sean Davison (category Euthanasia activists)
assisting his mother to die; he also said he hoped his trial would help bring about a law change on euthanasia. During Davison's time on home detention he received...
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Memorial and Information Point for the Victims of National Socialist Euthanasia Killings (German: Gedenk- und Informationsort für die Opfer der nationalsozialistischen...
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