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This was also the day that the systematic murder of Disabled Children and Disabled Adults (starting with those who had been institutionalized) began under Hitler's Nazi regime.
Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Aktion T4 (emphasis mine -- citation links #44 and #45 removed):
As early as 1920, Alfred Hoche and Karl Binding advocated killing people whose lives were "unworthy of life" (lebensunwertes Leben). Darwinism was interpreted by them as justification of the demand for "beneficial" genes and eradication of the "harmful" ones. Robert Lifton wrote, "The argument went that the best young men died in war, causing a loss to the Volk of the best genes. The genes of those who did not fight (the worst genes) then proliferated freely, accelerating biological and cultural degeneration". The advocacy of eugenics in Germany gained ground after 1930, when the Depression was used to excuse cuts in funding to state mental hospitals, creating squalor and overcrowding.
Remember that when you hear the rhetoric about how there's not enough money in the federal budget to pay for Social Security Disability Insurance. Also remember that the money is there -- it's just being diverted into military spending, and (~shudder~) the Space Corps. that Trump wants.
