With its mass murder of people with disabilities the National Socialist regime crossed the
line from racist and inhuman propaganda to the actual extermination of people they deemed unfit
to live. These murders paved the way for the Holocaust in that the regime made further use of
the experience and expertise of central figures in the murder of people with disabilities.
Methods used in their extermination were applied especially in the death camps of Aktion
Reinhardt in 1943.
