This was the codename for a murder campaign begun in April 1941 in Sachsenhausen concentration camp. An extension of the Nazis’ euthanasia programme (→ Aktion T4), it set out to kill inmates who were physically or mentally ill, unfit to work or otherwise ‘useless’. T4 assessors selected the candidates to be murdered; they were killed in the Sonnenstein, Bernburg and Hartheim euthanasia centres. By the time the campaign ended in spring 1943, over 10,000 people had been murdered in the Nazis’ killing centres.
Synonyms: Operation work-shy Reich
Synonyms: Operation Storm Operation Grid
Synonyms: Auschwitz
Synonyms: Bergen-Belsen
Synonyms: Buchenwald
Synonyms: Moabit freight depot
Synonyms: Flight Exile
Synonyms: Flossenbürg
Synonyms: Kommunistische Partei Deutschland KPD
Synonyms: Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring
Synonyms: Law on the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service’
Synonyms: Secret State Police
Synonyms: home purchase contracts
Synonyms: Shoa
Synonyms: Jew houses
Synonyms: Jewish department
Synonyms: Köpenick week of blood
Synonyms: Mauthausen
Synonyms: NSDAP
Synonyms: November pogroms
Synonyms: Pole campaign
Synonyms: Racial defilement Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour
Synonyms: Ravensbrück
Synonyms: Black, Red, Gold Banner of the Reich
Synonyms: RGO Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition
Synonyms: RFMB Alliance of Red Women and Girls
Synonyms: RFB Alliance of Red-Front Fighters
Synonyms: Sachsenhausen
Synonyms: SS Protection squadron
Synonyms: SD Security service
Synonyms: Sipo Security Police
Synonyms: Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschland SPD
Synonyms: SA Assault division