Jewish Kids Euthanasia Center T4 postcard

Jewish Kids Euthanasia Center T4 postcard
Very rare postcard sent from a center of the T4 Euthanasia programme center for the extermination of Jewish Kids in Preßbaum, newar Wien. Both postcards are sent from "Spezialkinderheim". This programme was one of the most secret Eugenics programms in the Third Reich, so these letters are really interesting from a historical point of view.Aktion T4 was a postwar name for mass murder by involuntary euthanasia in Nazi Germany. The name T4 is an abbreviation of Tiergartenstraße 4, a street address of the Chancellery department set up in early 1940, in the Berlin borough of Tiergarten, which recruited and paid personnel associated with T4. Certain German physicians were authorised to select patients "deemed incurably sick, after most critical medical examination" and then administer to them a "mercy death" (Gnadentod). In October 1939, Adolf Hitler signed a "euthanasia note", backdated to 1 September 1939, which authorised his physician Karl Brandt and Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler to implement the programme.