■slippery slope

●Tateiwa［1997］chapter 6（p.240）・chapter 6 note 45（p.267）

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◆Alexander, Leo 1949 "Medical Science under Dictatorship", New England Journal of Medicine 241 (July 14)

Whatever proportions these crimes finally assumed, it became evident to all who investigated them that they had started from small beginnings. the beginnings at first were merely a subtle shift in emphasis in the basic attitude of the physicians. It started with the acceptance of the attitude, basic in the euthanasia movement, that there is such a thing as a life not worthy to be lived. This attitude in its early stages concerned itself merely with the severely and chronically sick. Gradually the sphere of those to be included in this category was enlarged to encompass the socially unproductive, the ideologically unwanted, the racially unwanted and finally all non-Germans. But it is important to realize that the infinitely small wedged - in lever from which this entire trend of mind recieved its impetus was the attitude towards the nonrehabilitable sick.

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