A new page and great civic theater Marco Paolini on Wednesday, January 26 La7 in prime time and live.
Words like stones to hope to build consciences not able to repeat the trick of considering a man's world and sub-men.
- Below the audio files for listening to the story ( Click here to download the files ):
- Here is a link to review the show on the site La7 (until it is available).
- Here is a link to the video excerpt from the show with a dedication final Paolini Primo Levi.
- Here a video from Youtube:
- Here a brief television criticism from Il Corriere della Sera.
- Here criticism of Aldo Grasso Il Corriere della Sera.
- Below the trace of the monologue that the director and stage actor starred La7 on January 26 for a day of remembrance of the Holocaust. Dedicated to the disabled because they could slow down exterminated by the Fuhrer the travel of the Reich ( taken from L'Espresso )
Between 1939 and 1945 in the territory of the Reich were murdered hundreds of thousands of German citizens , disabled and sick of mind. The first victims of Nazism were to them, before the Jews before the gypsies, homosexuals first. First of all, they were passed by the fireplace up their children badly managed, in a mixture of pseudoscientific racial and economic reasons, but wisely never said openly induced: perhaps because of this, what happened at the hands of a few, it happened before the eyes of all. Killed by doctors or by order of doctors, persons employed in places that were treated. Today we know much more than what happened under the Nazis. We know the methods used to kill, we know the culprits, we know large numbers. If you want you can also find information on the diameter of the tubes where the gas was passing, the type of fittings used to join the tubes. But the history of the extermination of the disabled and the mentally ill has been kept secret until a few years ago. People who have had no word for a long time and did not even consider: because they were "not." It is the story of mass murder, known as T4, where T4 is going to Tiergatenstrasse 4, the address of a machine in Berlin ruled that doctors, nurses, psychiatrists, used in Nazi Germany that have removed 300 000 (at least) "lives unworthy of being lived." Why? Perhaps because they slow the march of the Third Reich.
began to die first, before the camp, and continued to die for the last, until after the war ended. Medicine, doctors are among the protagonists of the story I tell, but doctors, psychiatrists, German and Italian are those since the eighties have revealed the facts and allowed this story to emerge, but that German history has concerned Italy, too, but yesterday's story that reminds us today, history with a few stories, hard to tell, hard to hear.
Hitler took power in Germany in '33 , and everything happens in 12 years, but this story begins earlier, because the doctors eugenics began their work before At the end of the "Belle Epoque". Perhaps there has never been another era in which scientists have been so high priests of people's lives. Because cities are illuminated with light of gas lamps, running cars, the medicine is making headway. The idea of \u200b\u200bdefending the breed is not only a figment of German philosophy: all discuss the theories of heredity and evolution of species. the first country in the world apply the fledgling "science" eugenics is America! Between the end of 1924 and a series of American States adopted laws on compulsory sterilization. At that moment the U.S. is the most advanced country on the border of the hard struggle to have children, beautiful, healthy and strong. And in Europe a politician who is taking the first steps are hardly aware of Adolf Hitler's. In 1920 in Germany was published a little book "Die Freigabe der Vernichtung lebensunwerten Lebens (permission to destroy life unworthy of life). This chapter is written to a doctor and a judge. Lives unworthy of being lived, but that book was not the only one in circulation, there was a thought that he would raise his voice and came from far away, from overseas, more than the beginning the twentieth century. In the land of poets and musicians, that thought becomes elimination and elsewhere, in other civilized nations, before there began and for many years after it was over there, appeared with the forced sterilization of hundreds of thousands of people. Almost always women.
Authoritative scientists speak of evidence of heredity of mental illness and propose to eliminate a million psychopaths. The injury becomes legitimate because the science it supports. Hard to resist. The estimated time for the sterilization to produce their effect is too long. The race problem had the highest priority: the activity care for the vulnerable was to be terminated to make room for the protection of health of the healthy population. It will change in 1939. What the British was "to eradicate illness", to eradicate the disease, the Germans became "ausmerzen" suppress the weak. And how do you do? With an organization, deception and consensus. We start by involving people of faith, family doctors, convincing them that it is possible to treat people with disabilities, even serious ones, and proposing to intervene with families so that they entrust to the testing of these new treatments on their children.
At the base there are doctors who get a notice, at the top to do the will of the Führer "ausmerzen. In the middle want something, a machine: it is called T4, a lightweight machine capable of applying large-scale euthanasia of a State to a variety of parasites. Deception: no person was deleted without euthanasia, there was next to the parent's signature. After agreement has been signed almost always arrive in a short time a letter informing that the joint project on the basis of economic planning and the measures of evacuation was transferred to another hospital in accordance with the directive of the Commissioner of Defense of the Reich. And by this death, the passage was very short. And the car starts moving, with a focus on children. Upon arrival are stripped, visited, washed ... die with gas, but they die even with medication. They call it "treatment." There are many words used to call something without saying it, even to themselves. Everything was recycled, from clothes to gold teeth, as eventually to extermination camps. But I have come to the conclusion that very often the most valuable thing was not what they wore, but something inside me. Medical science has never been available for testing human brains, body parts, such as those that will provide the practice of euthanasia by providing warm bodies.
In the first decades of the last century, German medicine was to 'avant-garde in the world for the study in the neurosciences. The brains and bodies of fresh cut for the anatomical drawings, the bodies of patients with diseases that were never observed on living or recently dead bodies, are essential for studying diseases or syndromes known. Their discoverers knew the origin of matter over which they exercise their research, and in many cases they identified many of the case for their scientifically useful ... We are grateful to those who have made the vaccine for tuberculosis, but who did we think something as a guinea pig. How is it that so many men of science have seen up close what was happening without much affecting science a conscience? There are doctors who have exercised their dissent without being harassed, but they are few. The others went as officials obliged to obey. Suddenly in August 1941, Hitler changed his mind and ends T4. Officially ... in two years killed 70 000 people: children and the rest of 5000 adults, men and women, the disabled and mentally ill.
officially ends T4, not really. Because now euthanasia State is built, just do not need more children taken from their families. Orphanages and asylums are full. No need for gas, but continue to die in asylums, contributing to the mission of reducing the economic cost of these people stray from the product GDP of a country engaged in conflict esterni.E I die three times as many. The trial opened on T4 on the sidelines of the Nuremberg trials, Alice Ricciardi von Platen was one of the experts appointed by the Order of physicians to establish, reconstruct, document. He tried to publish this work, but after the war no one, not even the Order of the doctors wanted to stick their finger in the wound. Only in 1993 his "The Nazis and euthanasia of the mentally ill" (The letter) is read and distributed as a bestseller. This story does not come out when you rarely do Days of memory, because the other is larger. This is minor, almost not worthy story to be told. Psychiatrists have had the merit of I broke the silence on this story to question. Doctors also should do so, scientists should do, each one of us should at least know it.
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