Citation

Scharfetter C. Schweiz. Arch. Neurol. Neurochir. Psychiatr. 1984; 134(2): 279-293.

Vernacular Title

Ein Anliegen der Menschheitserziehung: Delegierte Destruktivitat. Massenmord an

Copyright

(Copyright © 1984, Orell Fussli)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

6379861

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.

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