"Organizations with humanitarian-sounding names were immediately set up to execute 'health' programs, again, under deceptively, euphemistic terms. For example, questionnaires collected by a 'Realm's Work Committee of Institutions for Cure and Care' gathered and reported information on patients who had been ill five years or more and who were unable to work. 'On the basis of name, race, marital status, nationality, next of kin, whether regularly visited and by whom, who bore financial responsibility, and so forth,' decisions were made at key universities about which patients should be killed by psychiatrists who had themselves never seen the patients. Likewise, the 'Realm's Committee for Scientific Approach to Severe Illness Due to Heredity and Constitution'was exclusively devoted to the killing of children with congenital anomalies or chronic illnesses. In all, 275,000 people were put to death in these killing centers before the Nazi Holocaust."
