title: [An objective of the education of mankind: delegated destructiveness. Mass murder of psychiatric patients in Hitler Germany].
abstract: The extermination of 100,000 inpatients of mental hospitals and 5,000 mentally retarded children in NAZI-Germany under the Hitler régime between 1939 and 1941 is reported. The ideological precursors of these actions are traced. The ethological and anthropological aspects of inner-species destruction in the phylogenesis of mankind are traced. Psychological and social conditions of social destructiveness under "normal" and exceptional conditions are discussed and the consequences for education drawn.
mesh_terms: D005858:Germany; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000266:history*; D011056:Political Systems / Q000266:history*
vernacular_title: Ein Anliegen der Menschheitserziehung: Delegierte Destruktivität. Massenmord an Psychiatriepatienten in Hitler-Deutschland.