|
Date |
Event |
| 1920 |
Psychiatrist Alfred Hoche and jurist Karl Binding publish a book “Allowing the destruction of life unworthy of living” |
| 01/30/1933 |
Adolf Hitler becomes Reich Chancellor of Germany |
| 03/23/1933 |
German Parliament passes the Enabling Act, giving Hitler the power to enact laws without the involvement of the Reichstag |
| 07/14/1933 |
Hitler’s Cabinet passes the “Law for the Prevention of Offspring with Hereditary Diseases” mandating the forced sterilization of for people with certain diseases thought to be hereditary |
| 06/30/1934 |
Hitler and his associates commit their first mass murder |
| 08/19/1934 |
Adolf Hitler officially becomes Der Führer |
| 1935 |
Hitler declares his intention to radically solve the problem of mentally sick in the event of a war |
| 06/1939 |
Parents of Gerhard Kretschmar petition Hitler to euthanize their son and to make child euthanasia legal in Germany |
| 07/25/1939 |
Gerhard Kretschmar is euthanized on Hitler’s orders |
| 08/18/1939 |
Reich Committee for the Scientific Registering of Hereditary and Congenital Illnesses is established |
| 08/18/1939 |
Reich Minister of the Interior requires reporting all children with specified disabilities to T4 authorities |
| 09/01/1939 |
Nazi Germany invades Poland |
| 09/1939 |
Einsatzgruppen start shooting mental patients in Poland |
| 10/1939 |
Hitler authorizes Aktion T4 with a letter backdated to 09/01/39 |
| 10/1939 |
Mental patients from German hospitals sent to Poland and shot |
| 10/1939 | The first killing with carbon monoxide takes place in Poland |
| 12/1939 |
The first euthanasia center set up in Brandenburg an der Havel |
| 07/01/1940 |
The first killing facility for children is established |
| 12/02/1941 |
Vatican issues decree condemning Aktion T4 |
| 02/1941 |
The first public protest against Aktion T4 takes place in Absberg |
| 06-07/41 |
Bishop von Galen condemns Aktion T4 in his sermons |
| 08/24/41 |
Adolf Hitler officially suspends Aktion T4 |
| End of 1941 |
Aktion T4 personnel transferred to Operation Reinhard |
| 05/29/41 |
Last involuntary euthanasia performed in Germany |
