Beate Passow - Euthanasie-Opfer:
Beate Passow - Euthanasia of Children
"...I want to most courteously ask you to answer the following questions:", Beate Passow, 1996.
Children were excluded from Aktion T 4, but by October 1939 a special children's unit was
established in Görden, where the killing of children began. After the termination of
"Euthanasia Aktion T 4" in August 1941, the euthanasia of children was systematically developed.
At least 21 special units were established within Germany's pre-war boundaries. The directors of the
units were authorised to kill children. Children were transferred to these wards from hospitals and
welfare organisations who selected them for the euthanasia programme. They were then transferred to
special units after approval by the Central Organisation in Berlin. Children were transferred
to these special wards as "observation cases". The doctor responsible then made a report, by which the
central office in Berlin decided if the child should continue to be observed, or killed. The latter
were given Luminal in tablet form, or mixed with food, wherupon they became unconscious and died
after two to five days. Sometimes Morphium Scopolamin was injected.
This programme was scientifically promoted and organised by the universities.