Editing Aktion T4 (section)

==Suspension and continuity==

[[File:Fort VII Poznań RB7.JPG|thumb|upright|Commemorative plaque on wall on bunker No. 17 in [[Fort VII]]]]
On 24 August 1941, Hitler ordered the suspension of the T4 killings. After the invasion of the Soviet Union in June, many T4 personnel were transferred to the eastern front. The projected death total for the T4 programme of 70,000 deaths had been reached by August 1941.{{sfn|Burleigh|2008|p=263}} The termination of the T4 programme did not end the killing of people with disabilities; from the end of 1941, on the initiative of institute directors and local party leaders, the killing of adults and children continued, albeit less systematically, until the end of the war. After the bombing of Hamburg in July 1943, occupants of old age homes were killed. In the post-war trial of  Dr. Hilda Wernicke, Berlin, August 1946, testimony was given that "500 old, broken women" who had survived the bombing of Stettin in June 1944 were euthanised at the Meseritz-Oberwalde Asylum.{{sfn|Aly|Chroust|1994|p=88}} The Hartheim, Bernberg, Sonnenstein and Hadamar centres continued in use as "wild euthanasia" centres to kill people sent from all over Germany, until 1945.{{sfn|Burleigh|2008|p=263}} The methods were lethal injection or starvation, those employed before use of gas chambers.{{sfn|Lifton|1986|pp=96–102}} By the end of 1941, about 100,000 people had been killed in the T4 programme.{{sfn|Hilberg|2003|p=1,066}} From mid-1941, concentration camp prisoners too feeble or too much trouble to keep alive were murdered after a cursory psychiatric examination under [[Action 14f13]].{{sfn|Hilberg|2003|p=932}}