It was now more than a year since Hitler’s T4 ‘euthanasia’ programme had been launched, and in that time more than 35,000 German men, women and children seen as a drain on the nation’s resources had been killed by carbon monoxide pumped into gas chambers hidden in German sanatoria. In Poland the T4 techniques had also been adapted to kill the country’s mentally and physically handicapped, murdered in specially adapted mobile gassing trucks.
