Editing Aktion T4 (section)

===Listing of targets from hospital records===

[[File:Alkoven Schloss Hartheim 2005-08-18 3589.jpg|thumb|[[Hartheim Euthanasia Centre]], where over 18,000 people were killed]]
In early October, all hospitals, nursing homes, old-age homes and sanatoria were required to report all patients who had been institutionalised for five years or more, who had been committed as "criminally insane", who were of "non-[[Aryan]] race" or who had been diagnosed with any on a list of conditions. The conditions included schizophrenia, epilepsy, Huntington's chorea, advanced [[syphilis]], [[senile dementia]], [[paralysis]], [[encephalitis]] and "terminal neurological conditions generally". Many doctors and administrators assumed that the reports were to identify inmates who were capable of being drafted for "labour service" and tended to overstate the degree of incapacity of their patients, to protect them from labour conscription. When some institutions refused to co-operate, teams of T4 doctors (or Nazi medical students) visited and compiled the lists, sometimes in a haphazard and ideologically motivated way.{{sfn|Lifton|1986|pp=66–67}} During 1940, all Jewish patients were removed from institutions and killed.{{sfn|Browning|2005|p=191}}{{sfn|Padfield|1990|pp=261, 303}}{{sfn|Lifton|1986|p=77}}{{efn|According to Lifton, most Jewish inmates of German mental institutions were dispatched to Lublin in Poland in 1940 and killed there.{{sfn|Lifton|1986|p=77}}}}

As with child inmates, adults were assessed by a panel of experts, working at the {{lang|de|Tiergartenstraße}} offices. The experts were required to make their judgements on the reports, not medical histories or examinations. Sometimes they dealt with hundreds of reports at a time. On each they marked a '''+''' (death), a '''-''' (life), or occasionally a '''?''' meaning that they were unable to decide. Three "death" verdicts condemned the person and as with reviews of children, the process became less rigorous, the range of conditions considered "unsustainable" grew broader and zealous Nazis further down the chain of command increasingly made decisions on their own initiative.{{sfn|Lifton|1986|p=67}}