Aktion T4
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Aktion T4 was an involuntary euthanasia program which targeted people with disabilities and the mentally ill in Nazi Germany. The terms "T4" or "Aktion T4" were first used in post-war trials against d
Hitler's 1939 order authorising Philipp Bouhler and Karl Brandt to allow doctors to grant "mercy death" to "incurable" patients
NSDAP Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, head of the T4 programme
Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal doctor and organiser of Aktion T4
Schönbrunn Psychiatric Hospital, 1934. Photo by SS photographer Friedrich Franz Bauer
Phenol
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Phenol is an aromatic organic compound with the molecular formula C6H5OH. It is a white crystalline solid that is volatile and can catch fire.
Aktion T4
…treatment. The children sent to these centres were kept for "assessment" for a few weeks and then killed by injection of toxic chemicals, typically phenol; their deaths were recorded as "pneumonia". Autopsies were usually performed and brain samples were taken to be used for "medical research". Post mortem…
Phenol 2 grams
Amine to phenol
Bottle of Calvert's phenol antiseptic, Thackray Museum of Medicine