What Andrew Scull has said about Aktion T4
1 quote · 1 episode · Sep 17, 2026
Andrew Scull, British-American sociologist and historian of psychiatry, emeritus professor at UC San Diego, has been quoted on Aktion T4 once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on September 17, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Scull states that the gas chamber technology of the Holocaust was developed in the Nazi killing of mental patients.
“It was in the mass killing of the mentally ill, which may have been as many as a quarter million people, that the technology of the gas chamber was developed”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & Jung (Sep 17, 2026) · Listen from 48:23
Episodes
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & JungLex Fridman Podcast · Sep 17, 2026
Historian Andrew Scull talks with Lex Fridman about the history of psychiatry, from asylums, eugenics, lobotomy and ECT to Freud, CBT, psychiatric drugs and psychiatry's current crisis.
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