[Operation T4 or the implication of the German dental surgeons in the ideology of eugenics and the euthanasia of mental lunatics]. / L'opération T4 ou l'implication des chirurgiens-dentistes allemands dans l'idéologie d'eugénisme et dans l'euthanasie des aliénés mentaux .

ABSTRACT

Many things have been said about the T4 operation and the sad role played by Nazi doctors. But one could ask the same question about the dentists? They played an important role as they examined, diagnosed and denounciated patients with congenital diseases. Their in-house training serving this purpose was very specialised. Their implication is even more unquestionable when it came to removing dental gold from the mouth of the victims. Once it was collected this gold contributed on a financial level, to the course of the T4 operation.