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From
The AP:
BERLIN — Germany has inaugurated a memorial to more than 200,000
people with physical and mental disabilities who were killed by the
Nazis after their lives were deemed "worthless."
The memorial in Berlin is close to monuments to the Jewish Holocaust victims and to the Nazis' gay and Gypsy, or Roma, victims.
The
24-meter (79-foot) blue glass pane stands on the site of a villa where
the mass murder of patients at hospitals and mental institutes was
coordinated starting in 1940. The euthanasia program's methods included
using gas chambers.
Sigrid Falkenstein, whose aunt was killed in
1940, said Tuesday it was "a technology of killing tested and carried
out for the first time on defenseless, sick and disabled people, a test
run for all the Nazis' following programs of mass eradication."
