November 9, 1904 - Viktor Brack
Brack operated at the administrative heart of one of the Nazi regime's most concealed killing programs, translating ideological policy into institutional procedure. His role in Aktion T4 placed him among those directly responsible for building the bureaucratic and logistical machinery that enabled the murder of hundreds of thousands of disabled people across German-occupied territory. The methods developed under programs he helped organize were later adapted for use in the broader machinery of the Holocaust. He was convicted at the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg and executed in 1948.
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Viktor Hermann Brack (9 November 1904 – 2 June 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people. He held various positions of responsibility in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin. Following his role in the T4 programme, Brack was one of the men identified as responsible for the gassing of Jews in extermination camps, having conferred with Odilo Globočnik about its use in the practical implementation of the Final Solution. Brack was sentenced to death in 1947 in the Doctors' Trial and executed by hanging in 1948.
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