La justice de la République fédérale face aux crimes d’euthanasie perpétrés par le régime national-socialiste

Within the “Eutanasia” – Aktion T4 –, about 120.000 victims, most of them mentally ill persons but also political prisoners and forced laborers who could no longer work, were murdered, mostly by gas.The perpetrators and organizers – only a few of them were condemned by the federal tribunals – often...

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Main Author: Dreßen, Willi
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Language:Français
Published: 2005
Online Access:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Summary:Within the “Eutanasia” – Aktion T4 –, about 120.000 victims, most of them mentally ill persons but also political prisoners and forced laborers who could no longer work, were murdered, mostly by gas.The perpetrators and organizers – only a few of them were condemned by the federal tribunals – often made postwar careers. They have become a part of our recent past that we must confront without repressing the facts.Irrespective of all that, the German judicial system has made an important contribution to document the untold suffering of the victims. Nevertheless, too many perpetrators remained with impunity and thus the victims were once more degraded, this time for good.