The elderly and the handicapped were shuffled off to one side to await their fate. According to the Yad Vashem text, they were so exhausted and in shock that they could not comprehend what was in store.
These pictures provide a stark representation of the fate of the weakest among us when the strong decide whose life is worthy of living. The criteria at the death camps was the ability to work. If you were not fit for work, you were immediately sent to the crematorium. The only exception to this rule was if you fit a criteria for medical experimentation such as having a physical deformity.
We may not have pictures, but there is a holocaust of the deformed, the handicapped and the "unsuitable" that goes on every day in our country. We just don't want to be reminded . May we never lose sight of the depravity that follows when a society allows one human being to decide whether the life of another is worthy of living.
(h/t Powerline)
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