By Dave Andrusko

Dominic Lawson with his daughter Domenica
I’ve written or reposted a number of stories about Dominic Lawson, a columnist for the British newspaper, The Daily Mail. Few writers on either side of the pond more eloquently dissect the cancerous growth of a modern day eugenics, the primary target of which are unborn babies diagnosed with Down syndrome.
Over the weekend, Lawson reviewed “All Our Children,” which, he believes, “is the first attempt to dramatise a much less well-known policy of mass murder [than the Holocaust] carried out under Adolf Hitler’s leadership — one which has lessons for this country today.”
Over the years we’ve written about Aktion T4, under which 70,000 people were selectively murdered. This Euthanasia Degree was instituted before the Holocaust that resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews. Indeed Hitler dated it “to the very day he sent his troops into Poland (September 1, 1939).”
Hitler was always anxious to “weed out” the “genetically weak” and the outbreak of World War II gave him an excuse to eliminate “useless eaters” who were consuming “scarce resource,” Lawson writes.
Aktion T4 gave the killing machine a practice run–from killing thousands to killing millions. The United States Holocaust Museum says the program “represented in many ways a rehearsal for Nazi Germany’s subsequent genocidal policies.”
The parallels are eerily, frightfully uncanny. For example,
The doctors used gas chambers disguised as a shower room.
The chosen victims were, on arrival, told that they should strip off and enter the showers. But once inside, the gas valve was switched on and they were asphyxiated. (The process could take up to around 20 minutes: so much for the ‘humane end’ which the Nazi doctors simpered about in self-justification.)
In this way, the industrialised method used for the mass extermination of the Jews — with deceptive play-acting designed to fool the victims into unknowing acquiescence — was pioneered with the likes of epileptics and those with Down’s as the guinea pigs.
Indeed, the Nazi doctors who came up with this innovative method of silent mass murder — such as Dr Irmfried Eberl — later took a leading role in setting up and running the gas chambers of the extermination camps, notably Auschwitz. They were, after all, the experts.
What is not mentioned in Lawson’s terrific piece is who the very, very first victims were: disabled children.
Which makes the aforementioned “lessons for this country today” even more poignant, even more relevant. “In Britain, ever greater efforts are devoted to weeding out exactly the sort of humans that Hitler and the Nazis regarded as ‘useless eaters,” Lawson writes: Children with Down syndrome.
NRL News Today has written a great deal about NIPT (Non Invasive Prenatal Testing) which Lawson is talking about in his powerful conclusion:
The NHS is about to launch what it regards as a much more efficient antenatal screening method, one which promises to identify Down’s babies with greater accuracy.
In fact, the ‘promise’ of a similar, new procedure was announced by German doctors a few years ago. But when they did so, their press conference was interrupted by a Berlin-based actor with Down’s, Sebastian Urbanski. He shouted out: ‘We’re humans too, dammit!’ His voice, and his cry, resonated in that country.
To truly understand why it did, you need to see “All Our Children.”