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The Knauer case
- Knauer family petitioned Hitler for permission to have their severely disable child "put to sleep"
- Led to Child and Adult Euthanasia
- kept a secret from the public - was outraged when they found outt
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Decree bound all public, religious and private institutions to disclose mentally disabled patients
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Einsatzgruppen formed
role was to combat all anti-reich and anti-german elements in enemy territory behind the front-line troops and to 'render harmless' the leadership class in Poland -
Approved plans for the demographic reorganisation of easter europe
-After defeating Poland
-approved the madagascar plan after the victory over france
-more victories might lead to more radical policies -
Hitler invades Poland
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Mass shooting in Upper Silesia
- special SS task force carried out mass shootings for Jews
- Protests from Army High Command brought temporary halt to killings
- 5000 Jews killed in first 6 weeks of German invasion of Poland
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The Lublin Reservation
- Jews and other undesireables should be sent to the Lublin district, the furtherest coroner of the German empire
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Madagascar Plan
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Warsaw ghetto sealed
- 500,000 Jews, over 100,000 people per square kilometre
- food rations fell below an average of 300 calories a day
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Bishop von Galen on Musinter issued a sermon publicly denouncing the T-4 operation
- Nazi leaderesip was furious
- refused to sanction agaisnt him - didnt want a matyr
- Hitler ordered a stop to the gassings and circulated a rumour that he was unaware of the programme
- child euthanasia still continued until 1945
- adult euthanasia resumed out of public view - used other methods such as malnuirtion and drug overdose