ABSTRACT
In fact, the Kinderaktion (children's murder campaign) was orga nized differently than the T-4 program designed to kill mentally and physically disabled adults (among others), so much so that it was unaffected by the ostensible halt of the T-4 program in the fall of 1941. In many ways, the Holocaust began with the murder of disabled chil dren, on a local level in the 1930s by individual doctors and hospital directors, and on a national level in 1939. While the number of adults killed by the T-4 eugenics campaign was far larger, the children's cam paign lasted far longer, continued to expand in scope over time, and involved a complete transformation of how disability was understood and treated in Germany.
