Andrew Scull

“It was in the mass killing of the mentally ill, which may have been as many as a quarter million people, that the technology of the gas chamber was developed and the technology of dis of disguising the gas chamber as showers was developed.”

“it supported work in genetics and one of the geneticists it supported Ernest Ruden in Germany who was the leading German researcher in genetics and mental disorder”

“my own state was one of the pioneers in this process and it continued to sterilize mental patients up until about 1960.”

“They'd lost their essential humanity because their brains were defective.”

“the mentally ill were the first people to suffer from the final solution.”