Aktion T4 Part5

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Out of the Nuremberg doctor's trial came 10 principles written because doctors had done what the evidence had documented and because the world needed to say in writing never again.

[00:00:17]The Nuremberg code published in 1947 established the ethical foundation of modern medicine.

[00:00:26]The right of patients to give informed consent to any medical procedure.

[00:00:32]The right to withdraw from any study at any time.

[00:00:37]The prohibition on experiments that serve no legitimate purpose.

[00:00:43]Principles so fundamental today that medical students study them without always knowing what made them necessary.

[00:00:51]They were necessary because doctors had done the opposite of every one of them systematically for six years.

[00:01:02]The Hadamar killing center is a memorial today. The records survive.

[00:01:08]All of them. Intake logs, assessment forms, false death certificates, condolence letters.

[00:01:18]You can go there. You can read them name by name.

[00:01:25]200,000 names, perhaps 300,000.

[00:01:31]Each one a person assessed on a form by a doctor who never looked at them.

[00:01:38]The people who ran this program were not soldiers.

[00:01:42]They were not fanatics.

[00:01:44]At least not most of them.

[00:01:47]They were doctors, nurses, administrators, people trained to heal who marked a box and went home for dinner.

[00:02:00]The Nuremberg Code was written for them, for every doctor who would come after them, as a reminder of what medicine becomes when it forgets what it is More.