German authorities said on Thursday that they had unearthed the remains of 51 people, most of them children, in what may be a mass grave for murdered victims of Hitler’s euthanasia program. So far the skeletons of 22 children and 29 adults have been exhumed from the grave, located in a Catholic church cemetery of the village of Menden-Barge, local officials told reporters. The exhumation process is still under way.
The estimation in Germany was that the bodies were not of Jewish Holocaust victims, but were German victims of the Nazi’s systematic euthanasia program. The site of the mass grave was nearby the hospital where Hitler’s personal physician, Karl Brandt, worked. Brandt headed the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 and was involved in human experimentation.
The victims were apparently killed by lethal injection with poison chemicals emitted from cars. Brandt was at the head of the list of Nazi doctors tried in the Nuremburg trials.
State prosecutor Ulrich Maass said there were signs those buried in the grave met a violent end, especially the children.
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please change the headline to the following:
Germany – Mass grave of Hitler HY�?D victims discovered
Why would I do that if it makes no sense?
YW Editor.
HY�?D should be attached to Hiitler and not his victims R”L
HY”D
This type of discovery is just another way of reminding us that we must
stop with all narishkeiten of sinas chinum and we all know where to
put our koichos.
BE MISPALLEL FOR THE GEULA SHELEIMA AND TCHIAS HAMEISIM-
BIMHEIRU BEYOMEINU – OMEIN.
Mr Ang-do you even know what hy’d stands for???obviously not-it stands for hashem yinkom domom-which means may god revenge their blood-now why in the world would you want hitler yimach shmos blood to be avenged??The YW edidor does know what he was writing.
I think ang just giot confused with hy”d and ys”v. No big deal. An easy mistake to make.
Anyway, I’m wondering how they know it was euthenasia. Wasn’t that reserved for the mentally disabled and the aged and so forth?