1939年10月15日,纳粹德国入侵波兰后的六个星期,当时正值所谓“保持健康是你的天职”这一口号在德国流行的年代,阿道夫·希特勒口授了一条秘密的备忘录,准许德国医生处死德国医院中的残疾人。截至战争结束时,大约有20万男人、女人及儿童被杀害。受害者中约有三分之一是在德国六所历史最悠久的精神病院中伪装成淋浴室的毒气室中熏死的,其余大多数是被枪杀,毒害致死。有些则是在遭受几个月的饥饿之后而死亡的。 Six weeks after Nazi Germany invaded Poland on October 15, 1939, when the so-called slogan “Health is Your Vocation” popularized in Germany, Adolf Hitler dubbed a secret memorandum granting Germany The doctor executed the disabled in a German hospital. As of the end of the war, about 200,000 men, women and children were killed. About a third of the victims were smothered in gas chambers disguised as showers in the six oldest German psychiatric hospitals, most of whom were shot dead and poisoned. Some died after months of hunger.