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The decision to mass murder psychiatric patients in Nazi Germany was made by German psychiatrists and not Hitler
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"Hitler never gave the order to kill patients with mental illness. He only permitted it in a letter written in October 1939 and backdated to September 1, 1939 [2, 6]. Psychiatrists were therefore never ordered to facilitate the process or carry out the murder of mentally ill...they were empowered to do so. Activity by psychiatrists and psychiatric institutions thus constituted the connection between euthanasia and the larger scale annihilation of Jews and other "undesirables" such as homosexuals in what came to be known as the Holocaust."
from https://annals-general-psychiatry.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1744-859X-6-8?fbclid=IwAR3thJPQFU0XtUJDei1_SCkfRESUhBQjjGxXT7feGuWk6afGaTTFi91mQGA
"Hitler never gave the order to kill patients with mental illness. He only permitted it in a letter written in October 1939 and backdated to September 1, 1939 [2, 6]. Psychiatrists were therefore never ordered to facilitate the process or carry out the murder of mentally ill...they were empowered to do so. Activity by psychiatrists and psychiatric institutions thus constituted the connection between euthanasia and the larger scale annihilation of Jews and other "undesirables" such as homosexuals in what came to be known as the Holocaust."