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Titus Lantos

throw it away
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throw it away the following. When I was born, it was the last year before the occupation by Hitler's troops, in 1937. You could say that the doctors were already under a lot of influence. Academics were all supporters of the new ideology and the slogan “unworthy life” arose. Immediately after Hitler's troops marched in, they took away all the infirmaries and homes for the disabled, "disposed of" the people, as the saying goes, and turned them into hospitals. And sickly children and so on were also immediately disposed of. They wanted to have a healthy body, and unfortunately I was a premature baby, a seven-month-old weighing 1 kg 20. And the doctor immediately said: “Throw it away, nothing will come of it.” And that would have happened if I hadn't been in the hospital Spiritual sisters also served in Oberwart. And such a spiritual sister placed me in the incubator, contrary to the primary doctor's instructions. So here I am. And whether he made a misdiagnosis or not, I don't know. (laughs)