In 1949, just three years after participating in the prosecution of 16 German Nazi officials for their role in the mass extermination of those considered "useless eaters" during the Hitler era, Dr. Leo Alexander put his finger on the core "philosophic principle" which led to those atrocities.[1] He called it "rational utility," a Hegelian, Benthamite doctrine which led to the designation of increasingly large portions of the population to be treated as animals, and slated to be killed, because they took up too many resources of the society, or were otherwise undesirable. Hundreds of thousands of German citizens, not to mention millions of foreign nationals, were sent to their death according to this "principle."

This belief in utilitarianism—would Obama call it "pragmatism"?—has been encroaching for decades in the United States, and is now writ large in the health care policies of the Obama Administration. Obama has adopted Hitler's health program.

We are at the proverbial 11th hour. Anyone who opposes Nazi mass murder, must act now to stop Obama's Nazi health care program from being put in place in the United States.

The British Created Hitler

The ideological preparation for Nazi mass extermination began many decades before Hitler took power—and it didn't begin in Germany. Not surprisingly, the home base for Nazi medicine was Great Britain, home of the fraud called Malthusianism, and the Eugenics movement, which claimed that mankind's nature was genetically determined. The leading theoretician was Sir Francis Galton, a dropout from British medical school who wrote his manifesto, Hereditary Genius, in 1869. By 1907, Galton had established the Eugenics Education Society, and had spread his filth about weeding out the "genetically inferior" around the world, including the United States, where it was particularly popular with the Harvard, Boston Brahmin set, including the Harriman family.

This fascist propaganda spread like wildfire during the 1910s and 1920s in the United States, resulting in forced sterilization laws, and ugly immigration and racial restrictions. Such U.S. laws were, in fact, models for those picked up in Germany in subsequent years. The draconian austerity imposed on that nation by the Versailles Treaty, and British-dominated finance, spurred the support for such bestial thinking among the desperate population.

It is no exaggeration to say that the only reason such fascist programs were not implemented by the Federal government in the United States, is because the American people elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who fought to his last breath against the British fascist financiers and ideologues, and brought the United States out of the Depression.

In Germany, however, the British were successful in bringing Hitler to power, through the aid of their leading financiers, and U.S. collaborators such as Averell Harriman and Prescott Bush. Not surprisingly, Hitler was prepared to ram through their program—mass murder of the "unfit."

Thus, the movement for "treating" the unfit through sterilization and euthanasia accelerated during the 1930s. Mass propaganda idealized "mercy" killing, as well as cost-accounting considerations. According to Dr. Alexander, a widely used high-school mathematics text, "Mathematics in the Service of National Political Education," included problems stating how the cost of taking care of "the crippled, the criminal and the insane," took money away from social programs of housing and family allowances. At the National Socialist Party Congress in 1934, Dr. Gerhard Wagner, leader of the Nazi Doctors group, was also explicit: "The economic burden represented by people suffering from hereditary diseases is a danger for the State and for society. In all, it is necessary to spend 301 million Reichsmarks per year for treatment, without counting the expenditures for 200,000 drunkards and about 400,000 psychopaths."

With the accession of Hitler to power, a whole set of "racial purity" laws, with their consequent restrictions and sterilizations, was put into place. These laws resulted in the first waves of mass killings of the "unfit," estimated to have run into the hundreds of thousands.

A Shift in Attitudes

The Nazis carried out most of these murders in secret: most Germans were not ready to accept the brutal truth. But through the course of propaganda, and the hardships of Nazi rule, the population's attitude toward human life began to subtly shift. What Dr. Alexander explains as a shift in physicians' attitudes, was paralleled in that of the population as a whole.

Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. The beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of the physicians. It started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, and finally all non-Aryans. But it is important to realize that the infinitely small wedge-in lever from which this entire trend of mind received its impetus was the attitude towards the non-rehabilitable sick.

It is, therefore, this subtle shift in emphasis of the physicians' attitude that one must thoroughly investigate....

'Lives Unworthy of Life'

The first direct order for euthanasia in Germany did not come until the Fall of 1939, when the pressures of the war mobilization brought the cost-cutting element of the program very much to the fore. Until then, the ruse was that euthanasia was a "blessing" for those suffering, and special permission for such a "mercy death," allegedly by the Fuehrer himself, had to be given for it to be carried out.

In the Summer of 1939, Hitler had called in the Secretary of Health, plus State Secretary Dr. Hans Lammers, to tell them that "he considered it to be proper that the 'life unworthy of life' of severely mentally ill persons be eliminated by actions that bring about death." In this way, he continued, "a certain saving in hospitals, doctors, and nursing personnel could be brought about."

Hence the Top-Secret Euthanasia Decree of October 1939 (backdated to September 1). Under the title "The Destruction of Lives Unworthy of Life," the order, handed to his doctor Karl Brandt, read:

Reichsleiter Bouhler and Dr. Brandt are charged with the responsibility for expanding the authority of physicians, to be designated by name, to the end that patients considered incurable according to the best available human judgment of their state of health, can be accorded a mercy death.

According to Dr. Alexander, from that time forward,

all state institutions were required to report on patients who had been ill five years or more and who were unable to work, by filling out questionnaires giving name, race, marital status, nationality, next of kin, whether regularly visited and by whom, who bore financial responsibility, and so forth. The decision regarding which patients should be killed, was made entirely on the basis of this brief information by expert consultants, most of whom were professors of psychiatry in the key universities.

Under that order, according to the Chief of Counsel for War Crimes for the U.S. at the Nuremberg Tribunal, at least 275,000 German nationals were killed. The best available breakdown is: 70-80,000 patients in medical and nursing homes; 10-20,000 invalids and disabled people in prisons; 3,000 children between 3 and 13 who needed special care. In addition to all this, were the millions and millions of Jews, Gypsies, and other "undesirables" who were killed, or worked to death, in concentration camps.

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