Peter wrote:I know that the NSDAP system utilized the T-4 euthanasia program to murder physically and mentally disabled people of all ages but I was unaware that the system was also apparently used to murder other people.
Was Bernburg used as a location to kill other people who did not fit within the Nazi system, at this date I would have expected to see this man sent to Mauthausen or Auschwitz if he was to be executed, as a print shop worker he is surely unlikely to fit the Nazi criteria for T-4 ?
Such KL inmates sent to euthanasia centers fit a special Action 14f13 criteria that used several T-4 facilities to carry out the murders (even though the victims did not fit T-4 criteria). 14f13 criteria "...culled the sick, elderly and those deemed no longer fit for work from the rest of the prisoners in a selection process, after which they were killed. The Nazi campaign was in operation from 1941–1944 and later covered other groups of concentration camp prisoners, as well." T-4 criteria did not apply to these victims. See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_14f13.
This explains the language found on some of the Gestapo records (at
http://www.doew.at/) that mention victims being transferred from a KL to a euthanasia center via an "invalid transport" and then murdered (some records mention this while others do not). Even though some of the Gestapo records do not mention Action 14f13, it is still most likely that the transfer to a euthanasia center occurred under the provision of Action 14f13 if the victim was not applicable to T-4.
I thought that T-4 victims were the only ones murdered at the euthanasia centers until I looked more deeply into this topic. And although the Wiki quote above says the program ended in 1944, I believe it continued into 1945.
