I’ve been reading lately not just about how the Nazi party came to power, but how they immediately began to gather up folks they regarded as problematic and plop’em down in gated communities… for their own protection. Oddly, the parents of a number of children who had been placed in homes for the mentally retarded – the management of which institutions was taken over by the National Socialist Party , began to receive notices that, sadly, their child had developed a severe case of pneumonia, and, well, incurably died, and here are the ashes in this cheap cardboard box.

Curiously, this same accelerated mortality seemed to be singling out chronically ill German veterans of the Great War, whose care was coincidentally defined as a drain on the state’s resources.

Intriguing how the aims of the state can so conveniently converge with the unfortunate failure of certain troublesome patients to thrive.