What should be done with the senile, the mentally handicapped, the disabled, the epileptics and the Down Syndromes? The Nazi’s had a Euthanasia Programme which was signed by Hitler on September 1st, 1939. 200,000 people were rounded up, placed in psychiatric hospitals and systematically murdered. Stephen Unwin’s All Our Children is fiction, but based on fact.
The big scene is an imagined meeting and debate between the paediatrician who runs such a clinic and the brave, outspoken Bishop von Galen, famous for his three sermons denouncing the Programme and the Nazis. “Life,” he says, “is indivisible.”