# Into That Darkness

## Metadata
- Author: [[Gitta Sereny]]
- Full Title: Into That Darkness
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- were the so-called “desk-murderers”. None of them, nor their staff in the offices of T4, ever actually committed murder. And some of them – at least at the start of these appalling events – seem to have believed sincerely that a “merciful” Euthanasia Programme was justified: a belief shared by the many perfectly honourable people who today propose legalizing euthanasia on demand. ([Location 792](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005C2SOUY&location=792))
- But once the euthanasia “institutes” came into being, no one either in the Fhürer Chancellery or T4 could continue to harbour illusions; it was abundantly clear that what was happening was not “assisted suicide”, or the “mercy-killing of grievously suffering patients upon their own or their relatives’ request on therapeutic grounds”, but legalized murder, undertaken for starkly economic – and later political – reasons … and even at that, its “legality” was only a pseudo – legality. The ([Location 795](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005C2SOUY&location=795))
- Eugenio Pacelli (Papal Nuncio in Germany 1917–1929; Cardinal Secretary of State at the Vatican 1930–1939; and Pope Pius XII 1939–1959), ([Location 1051](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B005C2SOUY&location=1051))