00:00Before the Holocaust, Nazi Germany practiced on its own people.
00:03Between 1939 and 1941, the German government secretly murdered around 300,000 of its own
00:10disabled citizens.
00:11They called it Action T4.
00:13Here is what made it different from anything before it.
00:16Doctors submitted patient names on forms.
00:19A committee in Berlin reviewed the files.
00:21They never met the patients, never examined them.
00:24They simply stamped the paperwork and moved on.
00:26Patients were loaded onto gray buses and driven to one of six killing centers.
00:31Families received urns of ash weeks later, along with death certificates listing causes
00:36like heart failure or pneumonia.
00:38Every single one was a lie.
00:39The program was supposed to be a secret.
00:41But Germany is a small country.
00:43The ash kept arriving.
00:45Priests began speaking out from pulpits.
00:47Families started recognizing the names of the facilities on the envelopes.
00:51The Nazis shut it down publicly in 1941.
00:53But the gas chambers did not stop.
00:56The staff transferred east.
00:58The paperwork systems moved with them.
01:00Action T4 was not just a crime.
01:02It was a training program.
01:04Determines
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01:04of the
01:04that
01:04it was a
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