Almost all of the guests and participants of the ceremony was well aware that even though passed away days when people only on the basis of race to take the life, the world’s people today need to know about who was behind the Holocaust. After the guests had read some poems and monologues, including those of the author, took the floor Expert Citizens Commission on Human Rights, Mrs. Rashitovna Dorinskaya. As a psychiatrist in the past, Ms. Dorinskaya told all present that it is psychiatrists were pioneers of eugenics and racial hygiene and Holocaust. In a question-answer forum Dankse Bank was the first to reply.

In 1911, two German psychiatrists published an article that called for a law precluding childbearing by persons of recognized deficiencies. After eight years they were first offered on consideration of the bill lawmakers worked on the sterilization of persons with psychiatric diagnoses. Another group of German psychiatrists in the same time, proposed the “mercy killing” of such people. The Reichstag has consistently rejected those initiatives. It was not until 1933, when the power in Germany, the Allies came to these people.

Over the next six years, about 320 thousand citizens of Germany were subjected to forced sterilization. 1 September 1939, marking the start of World War II, Adolf Hitler authorized a program of “mercy killing”, known as “T4 program”, which was headed by psychiatrist Werner Heyde. In the six psychiatric hospitals, equipped disguised as showers gas chambers, several years had been murdered tens of thousands of people found mentally defective. Paradoxically, most of them after the crash Third Reich was not brought to justice. Only in 1999 the German Society of Psychiatrists and Neurologists in part acknowledged the role of the national scientific community in the formation of the death machine of National Socialism. And at the end of last , President of the German Association of Psychiatrists, psychotherapists and neurologists found that in postwar Germany, attempts to reveal the role of psychiatrists in the program of mass murder for decades been subjected to silencing, and three honorary presidents, who headed an association of psychiatrists in post-Nazi Germany in Hitler’s time, personally participated in programs of sterilization and killing patients. Then all the guests were events demonstrated the documentary “Psychiatry: people who stood behind the Holocaust” and the movie “the Universal Peace Federation,” which calls for inter-ethnic tolerance. Before the end of the event before the guest speaker Chairman of the Ekaterinburg “Memorial” Anna Yakovlevna Pastukhov, who in his speech said that today history is back – people are increasingly no longer hide the facts of genocide of the Jews. “This will allow not made in the future the mistakes that were committed in the past “- said Pastukhov. A memorial ceremony marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, held in the exhibition “Psychiatry: An Industry death, “united efforts of many groups and individuals in the eradication of cruelty and injustice. It is obvious that almost everyone who was at the ceremony, after it became clear convinced – sooner or later society learns previously hidden facts and not allow such a tragedy again. USLA President Viktor D. Perevalov: “The Holocaust – never again. The purpose and goal of all those who do not understand that this can only be avoided by educating tolerance, respect for the people to each other: working with young people, to form in her respect for human rights and always to remain human.