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04-12-2017, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Guest
I agree with gracie on this. Spicer misspoke. We all do that. He obviously meant that chemical weapons were not used on the battlefield.
Don't take one misspoken phrase and turn it into an entire denigrating of the person.
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What's a battlefield in the WWII? I would certainly say that trucks picking up mentally ill people and then gassing these is a battlefield. Most of the cities of NW Europe were battlefields in WWII. “Euthanasia” Killings — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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The completed forms were, in turn, sent to expert “assessors”—physicians, usually psychiatrists, who made up “review commissions.” They marked each name with a “+” in red pencil, meaning death, or a “-” in blue pencil, meaning life, or “?” for cases needing additional assessment. These medical experts rarely examined any of the patients and made their decisions from the questionnaires alone. At every step, the medical authorities involved were usually expected to quickly process large numbers of forms.
The doomed were bused to killing centers in Germany and Austria walled-in fortresses, mostly former psychiatric hospitals, castles, and a former prison—at Hartheim, Sonnenstein, Grafeneck, Bernburg, Hadamar, and Brandenburg. In the beginning, patients were killed by lethal injection. But by 1940, Hitler, on the advice of Dr. Werner Heyde, suggested that carbon monoxide gas be used as the preferred method of killing. Experimental gassings had first been carried out at Brandenburg Prison in 1939. There, gas chambers were disguised as showers complete with fake nozzles in order to deceive victims—prototypes of the killing centers' facilities built in occupied Poland later in the war.
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You should watch Saving Private Ryan again. The war was just not on the beaches of Normandy. It was in the towns around civilians as well.
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