{"id":29159,"date":"2013-03-24T14:07:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-24T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=29159"},"modified":"2013-03-23T11:17:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-23T15:17:43","slug":"book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Book highlight: Life Unworthy of Life by Derek Elkins"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What happens when individuals set themselves up to decide who is fit to live and who must die?<\/p>\n

When Hitler and the Third Reich controlled Nazi Germany, they had a goal of creating a \u201cpure\u201d race. In order to have this \u201cpure\u201d race, it was felt that certain people must be eliminated. The plight of the Jews is widely known, but less known is the plight of handicapped children.<\/p>\n

In his fictional book Life Unworthy of Life<\/i><\/a>, Author Derek Elkins brings readers face-to-face with the reality of Hitler\u2019s goal to exterminate handicapped children. The term \u201clife unworthy of life\u201d was used by the Nazis to describe those individuals whose medical conditions made them an alleged \u201cundue burden\u201d on the rest of society. The \u201ctreatment\u201d for such people was euthanasia under Hitler\u2019s Action T4 program.<\/p>\n

Life Unworthy of Life <\/b><\/i>allows readers to follow the life of Dr. Viktor Gottlieb, a promising young doctor assigned to the T4 program. While at first he believes in the work he has been assigned to, that belief is challenged as he sees the larger picture of what is happening around him.<\/p>\n

Readers will also be introduced to Dieter Himmelbach, a German boy who was born blind, and his friend Martin, who suffers from schizophrenia. As the worlds of Dieter, Martin, and Dr. Gottlieb collide, the reader is forced to come to grips with the horrors involved in the mass killing of handicapped children.<\/p>\n

Go on a journey back in time<\/a> to Nazi Germany to learn about a part of the past that should never again be repeated. While the book is fictional, Hitler\u2019s T4 program and the 200,000+ handicapped Germans who died at the hands of the medical staff assigned to the program are unfortunately not fictional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A hair’s breadth from nonfiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":28295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBook highlight: Life Unworthy of Life by Derek Elkins - Live Action News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Book highlight: Life Unworthy of Life by Derek Elkins - Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A hair's breadth from nonfiction.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Live Action News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveaction\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-03-24T18:07:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2013-03-23T15:17:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/article-2288237-1870CE6E000005DC-37_634x353.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"634\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"353\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Heidi Miller\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@liveaction\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Heidi Miller\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Heidi Miller\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/31ef29343a5c21e4507f76129f2497ae\"},\"headline\":\"Book highlight: Life Unworthy of Life by Derek Elkins\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-03-24T18:07:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-03-23T15:17:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/\"},\"wordCount\":303,\"commentCount\":2,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/#organization\"},\"articleSection\":[\"Media\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/book-highlight-life-unworthy-of-life-by-derek-elkins\/\",\"name\":\"Book highlight: Life Unworthy of Life by Derek Elkins - 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