Hitler's mentally ill relative murdered by Nazi regime

[capt_buzzard]

The Holocaust unleashed by Adolf Hitler touched his own family, it emerged yesterday, as evidence was uncovered that one of the Nazi leader's relatives was

murdered by the German state.

The woman, identified only as Aloisia V, was the great-grandchild of the sister of Hitler's paternal grandmother.

She became one of thosands of mentally ill people who were exterminated as part of a systematic campaign to eliminate or sterilise those deemed socially undesirable.

Aged 49 years at her death, Aloisia, who is thought to have suffered from schizophrenia, was gassed to death at Hartheim Castle near the northern Austrain city of Linz on December 6th, 1940.

Hartheim Castle was a training ground for the SS killers who later murdered people in their tens of thousands at extermination camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka in Poland.

Doctors killed thousands with letal injections and in primitive coal-gas chambers after Hitler decreed the mentally disabled to ''unworthy of life''.

[lady cop]

just as a point of information, most (American) PBS stations are doing some excellent programming tonight about the nazi death machine. it is an anniversary of the liberation of the camps. seems to me Capt. , i noticed BBC was doing some programmes too.

[capt_buzzard]

lady cop wrote: just as a point of information, most (American) PBS stations are doing some excellent programming tonight about the nazi death machine. it is an anniversary of the liberation of the camps. seems to me Capt. , i noticed BBC was doing some programmes too. Yup. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), is putting out some very good history programmes on this subject over the weekend.