Link: Remembering the Holocaust

[davidgillon]

It's often forgotten, or was never learnt, that disabled people were the first group singled out for systematic killing during the Holocaust in Aktion T4, that's something we should never allow ourselves to forget. I was trying to think of something appropriate to write, but Katharine Quarmby has saved me the effort by putting up the section of her book Scapegoat that discusses the T4 programme as her blog post for today:

Remembering the Holocaust – and the disabled victims who died in the T4 programme

(BTW, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people (Portobello, 2011), is an absolutely fantastic, if horrendously chilling, study of disability hate crime in the UK).

Comments

[liv]

Thanks for pointing to this. For some reason I find T4 really really hard to read about, not that any history about the Holocaust is ever easy and nor should it be. But the weird ambivalence that Quarmby points out, the pervertedly "medical" side of it, really gets to me. I knew most of the information in the linked article, but still.