Hitler vs the Disabled (Aktion T4) 

As someone who has a disability and is a history buff I knew about this horrible program for years Thank you for covering it and shining more of a light on it.

I'm in Canada, the similarities to our euthanasia laws are pretty frightening. From the three doctors that are supposed to evaluate the situation (there was a report a few months ago where it was reported that often the dr. signed after the fact), to the whole angle of "mercy killing". Now, I used to be ok with the original stated goal of the program, people who are in a terminal state and suffer needlessly... but this is being expanded to those with mental illnesses in the vein of depression, and even worse to minors (no need for parental consent!). All in the name of, well I'm not so sure.

My dad was a surgeon in an American Army evacuation hospital in the war. They moved into a Dutch hospital in 1944. At that location there was a building about six stories high with windows overlooking the main square. When the Americans arrived there were two or three microcephalics in each window, each one smiling and waving. "They probably had no idea there was a war on," said my dad. He thought the Germans had brought them all there to do some sort of study on them.

I’d like to see a video on Soviet eugenics programs especially with the insistence of some Marxists that they never happened.

I am a Christian and thank you for covering this. It is my opinion that you can tell a society's moral character by how it treats the most vulnerable.

12 minutes 5 seconds onwards. I was literally just thinking the NHS does that with Modazilam to old people. The NHS reduces the food and water intake of old people, then tell the family that the old person has stopped eating, then to stop the old person complaining to family at visit times, they're dosed up with Morphine "for the pain" , then they're killed off at the end with Modazilam. The NHS is a killing machine. Before that bit of the video, TK said poor families had to give up their kids to the state or loose their benefits. That's happening right here in Britain right now. Councils and social workers and the DWP collude against vulnerable families, then put the kids into "homes" where they're pimped out every weekend. Threatening families with losing benefits is one of the ways Councils, Police and Social Workers shut families complaining and making a fuss when their kids are being raped by Islamic gangs. The state is the state, times may change but fekin bureaucrats don't

Incidentally, I was just having an argument yesterday with a Russian who was claiming that Christian churches were in bed with the nazis. This topic ties in really well with the issue. Thanks for all the research and presentation you provide TiK^^

This is the direction Canada is travelling in today, and the Netherlands, to mention just one more.

Having watched your videos for years, I thought I had developed a pretty thick skin. The actions described in this video, however, had me feeling pretty queezy and I ended up having to stop watching every 5-10 minutes and take a break. Thanks for all the great work.

The problem with labeling individuals as defective or otherwise "useless" rationalizes the murder of anyone who is either elderly or has medical/mental conditions that prevents them from working. Another issue is what medical conditions constitute a justification for murder.

Thank you TIK for bringing this topic, one of those that must never be forgotten, concerning the WWII era. Never again!

Another great (and perhaps a little timely) video from Tik. The strength of any society or civilisation should be judged on how it treats the most vulnerable of its own.

No worse than the November Hotel Sierra (focus on the initials) they also routinely 'off' elderly patients, and have done for decades.

Bishop Galen even looks like a gigachad.

Hey TIK, loving this series on the history of eugenics. You may want to look into Tom Sowell’s theory on middleman minorities. I think it would tie in well I’m the context on WW2.

meanwhile in our reality - euthanasia being normalized and popularized in Canada and also in few European states.

You've made it difficult to watch other history videos, as almost no-one else clearly cites sources as you do. Thanks for that. On a serious note, don't ever stop bringing greater clarity and conversation to history. Society as a whole [or perhaps our governments which desire docile, malleable populations] seems to give little value to the importance of history, which pains me greatly.

Very early to a TIK video! This was brilliantly informative. I appreciated the insight on how the supposedly intelligent people of society were willingly falling in line, while many (not all unfortunately) laymen were sceptical. Also a suitably professional presentation of a disturbing topic.

Well we are during it today. By scanning the baby early on for defects. You can chose to get an abortion. So the process have just been moved on before birth. Thats why babies with downsyndrome in Denmark has decreased.

The more we know about WW2, the less chance we have of starting a third one. Does who forget history are doomed to repeat it.

As a person with a Neurodevelopmental disorder, thanks for talking about this topic. Few people talk about this vile crime that the nazis did. Wich this was the only time stuff like this happend. Unfortunately even to this day many people think that people like me should just be killed off or just be driven to suicide. I have heard talk like that to my face, even from "tolerant" people.

Deciding who can and cannot have children is very dangerous. Every ideology have groups they do not want breeding.

Hearing TIK use a term coined by Chris Chan of all people in a serious history video shows just how silly RU-vid censorship has become.

Please do a video on how Planned Parenthood has its roots in eugenics.

Midazolam was used in the same way with the elderly in spring 2020

The term “racial hygiene” was invented in Sweden and practiced even before the third reich did.

imo the current sex changes and euthanasia for minor reason we are having in many western countries, essentially "suicide pods" for unwanted people to kill themselves is very much the same shit nazis did and certainly inspired by them... like the case of Canadian GWOT veteran that wanted a wheelchair ramp was offered a option of euthanasia for his service, sacrifice and troubles...

Outstanding work TIK in pulling this one together. People really have little idea of the true scope and horror of the Third Reich, and how much of it spread into other nations. To name just one appalling example, in 2004 the CBC conducted a plebicite in which Tommy Douglas was proclaimed the greatest Canadian who ever lived. This was because he invented the system of social medicine in Canada. What was deliberately overlooked is that Douglas was a firm believer in eugenics.

I find your videos interesting and brings another view to this conflict. Under Hitler I would have been another victim either of T4 or the Shoah. My father and uncles fought against this evil. Thank you for your good work and please continue if possible more western front ones.

You know, the less you upload, the more excited I become when I see a new video!

Great video......kinda reminds me of what's going on in Canada with the MAID program... some people who've had broken arms or just been a bit down have been sent for "assisted suicide" even when they didn't want it. Now how many have actually been killed by this I don't know and luckily I think it's low..... ........for now but there are some parallels here but mot complete parallels.

In Soviet Union for example most of disabled veterans were shipped in various sanatoriums and medical facilities after the war, because they constantly drunk themself to death or have fond themselves involved into criminal activities

There was a hospital in the American Zone that was still euthanising and sterilising a month or two AFTER the surrender. Doctors doing it off their own bat? Where have I heard of that just recently?

love your videos, I've learned a lot about WW2 and the history of Germany and rise of Hitler from your channel probably more than any other channel keep it up bub 👍

A timely video Tik, I have no doubt you were motivated by the state-enforced euthanasia policies in Canada, and those developing in certain U.S. states. The regimes are different, but the motives are the same; to relieve charges on socialized medicine, and to create ‘new’ men.

Just yesterday I was thinking out loud: I could go for another Tik Video, and now here we are! Awesome! Also, yes, I'm very sensitive. That's why I listened to the Jonestown tapes. There's a HEAP of lessons to be learned from that right there. Worse than the crying children is when the crying stopped.

Great video on a very important topic. It’s a topic that for me carries a lot of weight because I was born with disabilities and developed more throughout my childhood. Despite this I’ve worked through them and I now earn more than the average person. With money being the measure of value it means that I actually add a lot of value to my area. The people who perpetrated the T4 program wouldn’t have believed this is possible. I also often think about the movie Verkannte Menschen or Misjudged People which was a movie created by deaf people (I’m deaf). They created this movie to show that despite their troubles in communication they could still be productive members of society. The movie was banned within 2 years.

Thank You for the acknowledgement of the role Catholic Church played in the opposition to the Nazis as well as the action T4 and other sins of the Third Reich.

Classic tik making youtube hate him again.

They're basically doing this in Canada now.

A very disturbing message TIK, but it needed to be said. Thanks for reminding us.

Not sure what to say, but I want to say something. Important topic! von Galen probably saved tens of thousands.

Wow, this was a powerful and informative video. Thank you Tik!! I appreciate your deep insights into these social issues!!

I'm really enjoying TIK's gradual shift towards Catholicism - the realisation the Church recognises natural (God's) laws before the state's laws must've been mind blowing 😂

This is just incredibly sad. It’s just the killing of innocent people for zero purpose. It is genuinely one of the most vile evil things done by humans.

"A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim"(for a child sacrifice) Aleister Crowley

I don't understand why people are so "blown away" by this kind of thinking, IF you reject Christianity then there is literally ZERO reason to abide by the laws and moral assumptions it provides at the cultural level, if anything the pursuit of efficiency and will to power are the most logical outcomes as they have a direct practical benefit to either oneself or ingroup preferences. As far as I can tell people like Hitler and Stalin were just more consistent when it came to Atheism's materialist presuppositions.

Again as a reminder wait untill 1998 and the Eugenics war. But seriously Thanks Tik, another powerful presentation and another 6 or so books to add to the library.

My goodness! Now I understand where the inspiration for the recent "mandates" came from! And I am not joking....

This is what it looks like when certain politicians say, “It takes a village” (i.e. ‘society’ or the State) to raise a child.

Clicked because I thought this was the title for a wrestling match. Stayed for the content.

The more I learn, the more I realise that Socialist Germany was almost identical to Socialist Russia, and Socialist North Korea.

I ignored the trigger warning. I always ignore trigger warnings; they're for overly sensitive weaklings. ....yeah, the trigger warning definitely belongs in this video. This is a tough one to watch. Great work though.

The Canadian government brought this back and called it MAID.

A culture of dearh. Now go google the MAID program in Canada.

This is terrifying to know.. because i see things that can be taken to this degree in our society now

How frightening is the fact that the state can make you believe in anything that they want you to believe in

Disturbingly, while the ideology of eradicating the disabled is not widely held today, the sad truth is that it is happening in some ways due to abortion. While most pro-choice people today base their beliefs in women's rights, the fact that many of the movement's pioneers were eugenicists must be pointed out in this context. The most stark example would be Downs Syndrome. In some northern European countries with few abortion restrictions, 95%+ of babies with Downs are aborted. This is during a time in which medical advancements have enabled profound improvements to both the life expectancy and quality of life for people with Downs. I can see how some people may view the rights of unborn babies as an abstract idea since we never get to meet them, but it becomes much less abstract when an entire group is all but missing from society.

Man, this channel has a very good quality. Is asom I didn't find it years before!

7:50 Sounds suspiciously similar to "Gender Affirming Care"

The grandfather of my exwife was the manager of a mental institution in nazi Germany. He comitted suicide because he couldn't stand what the nazis did to the patients.

Hey tik, first time commenter. I just wanted to say that I appreciate the work that you do. If it ever feels like you're screaming into a hurricane, and that the world is against you. I want you to remember that you have reached and changed so many minds, including mine. Keep up the good fight, what you have to say really matters.

I’m a person who’s almost totally blind. So, to me, it’s kinda like that poem says: First, they came for the Jews, and I started screaming because those Nazi hate mongers will be coming for my blind ass next

In less than 2 minutes.... A nigh on 200 year old work of Art that could be used to created further works of Arts exchanged for some potatoes and butter (Those that exchanged it have no share of blame). This alone should demonstrate the destructive nature of inflation let alone hyper inflation. Not 2 minutes in and my heart is broken.

Canada is taking notes as we speak.

Brilliant & captivating video on a subject that should be talked about more!

This is one of the rare times that when the German people heard this was being done they were outraged and Hitler backed off.

It's still going on today in the Western world. People refuse to see it and think they are the good guys and are "progress." I'm sure you and the audience are already well aware. Thank you for your research.

Just trust the science.

the death camp for the disabled called Hadamar is discussed in the documentry film 'Expelled'

Thank you for covering the hard topics of WW2. After you are done with eugenics. Can you do more exploration on Lebensborn program or about Germanization of children stolen from Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and other countries? Thank you so much.

As a parent of a keen mass debator, this video really hits home.

We do it in Canada now. Medical assisted death.

Got to admit that I had to stop @ 4:20 and ponder what "Mass Debators" (MD) meant. I usually love TIK's YT's Proper-Think "work-arounds" but this one may be over my head. After a bit the thought of Aaron Rogers (MD?) vs Fauci-ites seemed to be the answer. Outstanding presentation, Mr TIK, sir.

"But National Socialism wasn't real socialism!" Yes, yes it was! The soviets were just the equivalent to phizer, and the Nazis moderna, both make the thing, just with different formulas.

I think it’s worth to mention that there where 2 "brands" if churches. One was the Bund Deutscher Christen and the other one was the here mentioned confessing church. The confessing church was opposed to the government and had to deal with persecution while the Bund was Aligned with the NSDAP. I read somewhere that Hitler wasn’t really that fond of Christianity after all and secretly wished that Islam was Germanys religion

Hey tik since im so early i want to ask if you will do a video on the ecologists? I find the topic very interesting and especially the way they want to implement policies reflect that of totalitarian states

I would love to see a video on the great depression and FDR's silly little shenanigans(price controls)

Thank you for shedding a light on this topic that is barely mentioned by anyone, certainly not school, and even TV documentaries in Germany skirt around it. It is as if to maintain the eternal demon of the Nazis, our own people that were targeted by these lunatics cannot be allowed to also be shown as victims of the regime. It is as if a distinction between the Nazis and the German people themselves is somehow forbidden. To what ends, what goal, I can only speculate. My question is: Do the numbers of German victims of the Nazi-Regime make it into the final sums we get told about the victims of the Nazis and their policies, politics and acts?

New tik let's gooooooooo

This is happening again as we speak, almost to the letter.

When Tik's Hitler voice kicked in I couldn't help but laugh.

Perfectly researched video! Thanks for the quality content! One of your best videos in my humble opinon. Keep up the good work! I went to Schloss Hartheim once... appalling.

I wish that I had this video when I was writing my masters thesis in philosophy. I Am now a Catholic priest and I am also blind, what little I did know about this topic, barely scratching the surface, really shocked me. Your video has totally blown me away, especially now knowing thanks to you about the role of the Catholic Church in trying to stop this. This then brings me to today and being scandalized because the bishops don't dare speak up.

I was hoping that you would have included another discussion on this subject. That being the death of Charles Lindburg's disabled son, Scott. I watched a TV show, "History's Greatest Mysteries: Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping," hosted by Laurence Fishburne. The possibility that his son's death could have been an example of a "mercy killing" was covered in some depth. The TV show "Spin City" was a comedy series concerning how a Spin Doctor could manipulate a situation to change its impact. The medical professionals who participated in the German "mercy killings" are an excellent example of why they could be called Spin Doctors.

Probably the best Non--Stalingrad video you have ever made. Good luck

A 'topical context in information' panel, how delightful and thoughtful of RU-vid to consider me undoubted naivety.

Horrifying. Thankyou for bringing to our attention this disgusting but important piece of history detailing just what can happen to 'undesirables' within a totalitarian governmental system. If it happened before it can happen again.

as a person with a disability these issues are challenging but I am glad people still teach about it to show how people with disabilities were a victim of the Nazis, its also sad people with disabilities were harmed by other nations as well, Buck v. Bell supreme court case codified in the constitution sterliization.

Glad to see you decide to cover this topic Tik 👍

Nowadays we have an actual T4-programm all over the world which ist called Coc19-vaccination performed by the WHO and with millions of innocent victims. Anyway, the whole world is overcrowded and sacrifices must be suffered.👍🏻👍🏻

All T4 program personnel ended up manning the KZ system. You can imagine their already moral rot

Dear Lewis, please take a look at the Charles Lindbergh child kidnapping case in America. Methinks Dad Lindbergh had something big to do with the demise of "defective" child.

Please answer the question whether he was a sadist. I doubt it because he hated to see flowers wither (according to the documentary about his secretary Traudl Junge) and spoke with horror about animal slaughter. I think he was driven not by sadism but by conspiracy theories, idealism, and megalomania.

I know this isn't on topic for this video, but I've been watching and enjoying your backlog, and thought I'd offer some constructive criticism on some ideas in your older videos on the topic of the public vs. private distinction. First, in several videos you say that black markets are free markets. Given your thought process it's understandable why you'd think this, especially if you look at case studies of black markets in Mao's China or the Soviet Union. But if you look at other black markets, as Thomas Sowell did (though I can't remember in which book at the moment), he observed that criminal organizations behave exactly as monopolies do. The mafia made money off illegal taverns and brothels, and were territorial, creating regional monopolies. They also used "anti-competitive practices" to make examples out of petty criminals in their area; they regulated crime to reduce police attention to the regions where their illegal activities operated. The criminal organization in effect becomes the state within that black market, its own state within a state, even controlling many of the legal businesses in the area from behind the scenes. And most black markets are creations of the government (just to sidestep the natural law debate over things like kill-for-hire markets). The government creates a black market by statute and in a sense gives that market to the criminal class. A Damoclean sword of government intervention to seize you, your property, and your business for your crimes, influences how and by what means you do business as an actor in a black market. This is no different in effect from government imposed regulations controlling the conduct of business. Governments are often themselves involved in the black market, either in the open by giving themselves a monopoly which is a black market to everyone else -- the way the provincial governments of Canada have a legal monopoly on the sale of alcohol (the only exception being the province of Alberta which chooses not to but has the authority if it wishes), or behind the scenes where politicians are bribed and shelter the criminal enterprises giving them kickbacks. Second, one aspect of the public vs. private distinction which I don't recall you addressing in the videos I've watched is the typical history of corporate entities that would be taught in something like a law school. This isn't per se in contradiction with you, but explains why people disagreed with you about corporations being public entities. The story goes that we started with private individuals doing private business, but as their businesses grew in size we eventually created the idea of a sole proprietorship. This created a legal distinction between the private individual, and the private business owner, a distinction creating a liability barrier between the individual and the business. If your business harmed someone, and they wanted compensation, they would get compensation from the business and not from the individual, and likewise if the individual harmed someone, they would get compensation from the individual and not from the business. Legally this comes with requirements to keep separate books and not violate the barrier between what belongs to the individual and what belongs to the business (e.g. you pay yourself a salary and don't use business accounts for personal expenses). The story continues that we then came up with partnerships. Partnerships are similar to sole proprietorships but with more than one proprietor. The management of ownership shares create some extra legal requirements, but joining with partners allows the business to operate more efficiently at scale, or at least allows the business to have access to the expertise of both partners. Law partnerships are the ideal example because having more partners not only means you can handle a larger caseload, but each partner could have their own legal specialization. However an undesirable aspect of partnerships was the sharing of liabilities, if a partner did something stupid it could possibly make the other partners liable too. Thus the story goes that we invented the idea of a corporation, where the business is recognized as its own, separate, legal person. The partners with ownership shares make those shares publicly available to finalize this severing of their individual personhood from the business entity, which is now its own legal person. This legal person, the corporation, is a creature of the government, creature in the sense of a created thing; but it is a separate legal person just as you or I are legal persons and therefore a "private" actor. The former partners, now public shareholders, gained additional protections from liability as a result.

Makes sense based on the philosophy that was driving Nazism as described by Stephen Hicks in the youtube talk: "Philosophers and the birth of National Socialism"

These people were literal demons.

Euthanasia is returning with considerable force right now in Canada. Doctor-led, again.

This is stomach churning We are creeping towards this horror in many Western countries like Canada already. Sickening. 🤮

Reminds me a lot of Chinese doctors who committed infanticide during the one child policy 1980-2016. Most of them still believed they were doing the country a great service by killing babies. My own grandfather is one of them.