Sunday, August 18, 2013

REMEMBERING NON-REVISED HISTORY: AUGUST 18, 2013



George Santayana
Philosopher, Essayist, Poet, and Novelist

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Biography
Jorge Agustín Nicolás Ruiz de Santayana y Borrás, known as George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952), was a philosopher, essayist, poet, and novelist. A lifelong Spanish citizen, Santayana was raised and educated in the United States and identified himself as an American, although he always kept a valid Spanish passport. He wrote in English and is generally considered an American man of letters. At the age of forty-eight, Santayana left his position at Harvard and returned to Europe permanently, never to return to the United States. His last will was to be buried in the Spanish Pantheon of the Cimitero Monumentale del Verano in Rome. » Full Bio

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This Day In History 72 Years Ago
World War II - August 18, 1941

Hitler Suspends Euthanasia Program

    This photograph was taken toward the end of the war. Hadamar, April 1945 (NARA Photo)

On this day in 1941, Adolf Hitler orders that the systematic murder of the mentally ill and handicapped be brought to an end because of protests within Germany.

In 1939, Dr. Viktor Brack, head of Hitler's Euthanasia Department, oversaw the creation of the T.4 program, which began as the systematic killing of children deemed "mentally defective." Children were transported from all over Germany to a Special Psychiatric Youth Department and killed. Later, certain criteria were established for non-Jewish children. They had to be "certified" mentally ill, schizophrenic, or incapable of working for one reason or another. Jewish children already in mental hospitals, whatever the reason or whatever the prognosis, were automatically to be subject to the program. The victims were either injected with lethal substances or were led to "showers" where the children sat as gas flooded the room through water pipes. The program was then expanded to adults. » Full Article

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» Background & Overview of the Nazi (T-4) Program | Jewish Virtual Library


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“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
-George Santayana, Spanish-American Philosopher (1863-1952)


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