Abstract

DE PRADA PEREZ, Francisco Javier. Fog in August (2016) and Never look away (2018). Aktion T4: the nazi euthanasia plan for the elimination of persons with disabilities. Rev Med Cine [online]. 2021, vol.17, n.4, pp.275-290.  Epub Nov 19, 2021. ISSN 1885-5210.  https://dx.doi.org/10.14201/rmc2021174275290.

The rise to power of National Socialism in Germany and its consequences has been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for film productions. However, the Aktion T4 program, best known for a Nazi euthanasia plan, had not been the main subject of a movie until recently. Fog in august (2016) and Never look away (2018) are two films that address the methods used for the control and elimination of people with disabilities or, rather, of those who did not comply with the canons of the Aryan race and they were also an economic burden for the German state. The sterilization laws, first, the program for the elimination of babies born with some kind of disability and, finally, the Aktion T4 program that selected and ordered the murder of people admitted to institutions are the three phases of a calculated plan of extermination. Psychiatrists, nursing staff and other doctors and health workers were the designers, collaborators and executors of this crime against humanity that was, without a doubt, a trial for the subsequent Jewish genocide. Truth, justice and reparation for the almost 300,000 people of these forgotten crimes are still claimed in Germany today.

Keywords : euthanasia; Nazism; disability; eugenics; sterilization; ethics.

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