Nazi 'Mercy Killings' Exposed

25th November 1940: An American journalist, still nominally a 'neutral' in Germany, probes the sudden increase in unusual death notices in the newspapers

“Life unworthy of Life”: Nazi propaganda aimed at Germans began to suggest that murdering the disabled was standard medical practice.

Pioneering American journalist William L. Shirer had been reporting from Germany since 1934. Along the way, he had sidestepped Nazi censorship and broadcast several significant stories, including the French Armistice in Ju…