He had a whole program that was called "euthanasia". He said it would be easier to get rid of the problem then deal with it. He believed he was doing people a favor by all these heartless killings. ( Jewish virtual library ). There was around 270,000 disabled and elderly people that were killed. He did all of this because he thought he was helping the doctors and freeing them from their duties. ( holocaust education ). The reason why twins were sought after was for experiments. Hitler would assign doctors to do specific experiments such as injecting chemicals into their eyes to change the eye color. They would also inject diseases into a twin then transfer it over the the other twin to see if she would survive. The twins would get so experimented on they would kill them and they would be happy because it was literally torture ( huffington post). They don't have any specific amount of twins harmed or killed because of this. All the twins went through hell and back. They things they saw was shocking, depressing, and terrifying all at the same
He had a whole program that was called "euthanasia". He said it would be easier to get rid of the problem then deal with it. He believed he was doing people a favor by all these heartless killings. ( Jewish virtual library ). There was around 270,000 disabled and elderly people that were killed. He did all of this because he thought he was helping the doctors and freeing them from their duties. ( holocaust education ). The reason why twins were sought after was for experiments. Hitler would assign doctors to do specific experiments such as injecting chemicals into their eyes to change the eye color. They would also inject diseases into a twin then transfer it over the the other twin to see if she would survive. The twins would get so experimented on they would kill them and they would be happy because it was literally torture ( huffington post). They don't have any specific amount of twins harmed or killed because of this. All the twins went through hell and back. They things they saw was shocking, depressing, and terrifying all at the same