Haack Kathleen, Häßler Frank, Kumbier Ekkehardt
AG Philosophie und Geschichte der Psychiatrie, Klinik und Poliklinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universitätsklinikum Rostock, Deutschland.
Z Kinder Jugendpsychiatr Psychother. 2013 May;41(3):173-9. doi: 10.1024/1422-4917/a000230.
«Euthanasia» was the cynical euphemism used by the Nazis to refer to the systematic murder of hundreds of thousands of mentally sick and handicapped people between 1939 and 1945, at least 6,000 of whom were children. Based on the example of Günter Nevermann, this paper provides insight into the complex acts of registering, selecting, and targeting children labelled as "inferior" and "unworthy to live." This case clearly shows that Nazi doctors were not necessarily enmeshed in some tragic conflict. Rather, apparently without any qualms, they sacrificed the sick children who had been entrusted to their care, for the ideal of obtaining a "racially healthy corpus," a term used without being questioned. Most of the perpetrators were never brought to justice, and not a few of them later held managerial positions in child and adolescent psychiatry in the two German states. Many of them were members or even honorary members of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie e. V." in its present or previous form. We feel it is necessary to inform the public effectively about this state of affairs, to discover what really happened and to determine who was responsible.
“安乐死”是纳粹使用的 cynical 委婉语，指在 1939 年至 1945 年间对数以十万计的精神病人和残疾人进行的系统性谋杀，其中至少 6000 名是儿童。以京特·内弗曼的例子为基础，本文深入探讨了对被贴上“低等”和“不值得活下去”标签的儿童进行登记、挑选和 targeted 的复杂行为。这个案例清楚地表明，纳粹医生不一定陷入了某种悲惨的冲突。相反，他们显然毫无顾虑地牺牲了托付给他们照料的患病儿童，以实现获得一个“种族健康群体”的理想，这个术语的使用没有受到质疑。大多数肇事者从未受到法律制裁，其中不少人后来在两个德国州的儿童和青少年精神病学领域担任管理职务。他们中的许多人是“德国儿童和青少年精神病学、身心医学与心理治疗协会（Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie, Psychosomatik und Psychotherapie e. V.）”现在或以前形式的成员，甚至是荣誉成员。我们认为有必要有效地向公众通报这一情况，查明到底发生了什么，并确定谁应为此负责。
