(582) Sun 19 Oct 97 12:01 By: Fredric Rice To: Caroline Evans Re: Hitler Christian? Yep. St: Local 445<>583 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ @MSGID: 1:218/890@FidoNet 920a02f2 @REPLY: 1:323/120.0 226f69c4 @PID: FM 2.02 ce> One event in his life involved his early days in a euthanasia ce> unit. He was sent to pick up some retarded children for gassing. He ce> had some small misgivings about killing children, retarded or not. ce> They were at a Catholic orphanage/hospital and the nurses/nuns knew ce> that the kids were going to their deaths. They encouraged him by ce> telling him that the retarded kids would be happier dead... after ce> all they would be with Jesus and Mother Mary... certainly that would ce> be better than being alive and retarded. Their counsel helped him to ce> accept his duties. It was widely known that Hitler was killing the mentally retarded and the orphans because they would be better off and it was the Christian thing to do. PBS has covered the propaganda the Third Reich used to show how it was all for the best and that, in any event, such people were degrading the German economy. The propaganda machine included video tape of the mentally insane in their community rooms living poorly with the helpful, hopeful medical profession trying their best with an impossible situation. The Christian religion largely went along with it and those few who spoke out were executed publically so that dissention would be quashed. By the time European Jewry were being shipped to the extermination camps too, the practice had been entrenched. http://www.linkline.com/personal/frice/index.htm frice@linkline.com < ~*~ In Christ - Phill Mcrevis I hope you practice safe sodomy. [smile] - Fredric Rice --- * Origin: Hatred is _not_ a "family value." (1:218/890)