1. Viktor Hermann Brack was a member of the Schutzstaffel and a convicted Nazi war criminal and one of the prominent organisers of the involuntary euthanasia programme Aktion T4; this Nazi initiative resulted in the systematic murder of 275,000 to 300,000 disabled people.
Viktor Brack held various positions of responsibility in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin.
Viktor Brack was sentenced to death in 1947 in the Doctors' Trial and executed by hanging in 1948.
Viktor Brack was born the son of a physician in Haaren in the Rhine Province.
In 1929 at the age of 25, Viktor Brack became a member of the Nazi Party and the Schutzstaffel.
Sometime in 1932, he became adjutant to Philipp Bouhler and by 1934, Viktor Brack was his chief of staff.
Hauptamt II officials under Viktor Brack played a vital role in organising the killing of mentally ill and physically handicapped people in the Aktion T4 "euthanasia" programme, especially the child "euthanasia" from 1939.
In January 1940, Viktor Brack gave August Becker the task of arranging gas-killing operations of mentally ill patients and other people whom the Nazis deemed "life unworthy of life".
On 3 April 1940, Viktor Brack explained to leading members of the German Council of Municipalities his justification for murdering persons deemed permanently mentally ill.
Beyond those reasons, Viktor Brack added the ideological components of racial hygiene as grounds for their extermination, atop stressing the importance of the war effort above humanitarian factors.
On 23 June 1942 Viktor Brack wrote the following letter to Himmler:.
Since Viktor Brack was transferred to an SS division, his deputy Blankenburg took over responsibility for the task and would "immediately take the necessary measures and get in touch with the chiefs of the main offices of the concentration camps".
Viktor Brack subsequently took part in the administrative process of establishing extermination camps in occupied Poland.
Viktor Brack was known to radically enforce euthanasia, even terrorizing doctors and nurses to ensure they maintained the killing procedures, despite later claiming during the trials that he had never even heard of the T4 programme.
Nonetheless, Viktor Brack denied any anti-Semitism or involvement with killing Jews and avowed that he had joined the Waffen-SS in 1942 to distance himself from the regime.