Abstract Since the end of World War {II} much has been written about the estimated six million Jews who were exterminated during the Nazi Holocaust which extended from 1939-1945. However, very little has appeared in print concerning the thousands of people with disabilities who were judged not fit to live and also were put to death for that reason. This article is meant to fill in that hiatus in history as the world now is commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the end of World War {II.}