Lombardi, Paolo (Author)
Gianluca Nesi (Author)
Insegna del Giglio
Physical Details: 128 pp.
Language: Italian
Nell’autunno 1939, il regime nazista varò la sua prima operazione di sterminio di massa: l’eliminazione dei malati di mente. Autorizzata da Hitler senza un piano preciso né un’indicazione di modi e mezzi, l’esecuzione dell’azione fu affidata alla Cancelleria del Führer, che si trasformò da istituzione tutto sommato secondaria in un vero e proprio Ministero della morte. Reclutando il personale necessario, inaugurando prassi organizzative e gestionali, sviluppando competenze, e sperimentando metodi di assassinio, la Cancelleria del Führer costruì dal nulla un apparato di assassinio che venne presto ad estendersi anche a disabili, malati cronici, e qualsiasi soggetto ritenuto asociale, da eliminare in completa segretezza. Risorse umane, expertise, mezzi e soluzioni omicide – dall’invenzione della camera a gas all’uso dello Zyklon B –, sarebbero poi state trasferite a Est per una impresa su più larga scala: il genocidio degli ebrei. A questa operazione (denominata T4) che divenne la prova generale del successivo genocidio, presero parte autisti, giardinieri, cuochi, infermieri, medici e uomini delle più varie professioni e provenienze, ciascuno aderendovi senza costrizione e ricorrendo alla propria inventiva per trasformare in realtà i desideri omicidi del regime. Gli assassini di massa furono un’impresa voluta dai vertici della dittatura nazista, ma progettata e attuata a livello più basso da molti partecipanti, che vi aderirono secondo percorsi diversi, e però tutti convergenti nell’attuare le politiche del regime come mezzo di avanzamento della comunità e della cultura tedesca, oltre che condizione per l’avanzamento delle proprie discipline e carriere. Senza questa intima adesione, in assenza di ogni particolareggiato piano centrale, nessun programma di sterminio sarebbe stato possibile. [Abstract translated by DeepL.com/Translator: This is the abstract in English… In the fall of 1939, the Nazi regime launched its first mass extermination operation: the elimination of the mentally ill. Authorized by Hitler without a precise plan or an indication of ways and means, the execution of the action was entrusted to the Führer's Chancellery, which was transformed from an all-too-secondary institution into a full-fledged Ministry of Death. By recruiting the necessary personnel, inaugurating organizational and managerial practices, developing expertise, and experimenting with methods of assassination, the Führer's Chancellery built from nothing an apparatus of assassination that soon came to extend to the disabled, the chronically ill, and any subject deemed antisocial, to be eliminated in complete secrecy. Human resources, expertise, means, and murderous solutions-from the invention of the gas chamber to the use of Zyklon B-would then be transferred to the East for a larger-scale enterprise: the genocide of the Jews. In this operation (called T4), which became the dress rehearsal for the subsequent genocide, drivers, gardeners, cooks, nurses, doctors and men of the most varied professions and backgrounds took part, each adhering to it without compulsion and resorting to their own inventiveness to turn the regime's murderous wishes into reality. Mass murder was an enterprise desired by the top leadership of the Nazi dictatorship, but planned and implemented at the lowest level by many participants, who adhered to it along different paths, and yet all converged in implementing the regime's policies as a means of advancing the German community and culture, as well as a condition for the advancement of their own disciplines and careers. Without this agreement, in the absence of any detailed central plan, no program of extermination would have been possible.]
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