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The national socialist
»euthanasia« killings
Themes
The path to the »euthanasia« killings
Eugenics / »Racial hygiene«
The debate about the »annihilation of life unworthy of life«
»Racial hygiene« in National Socialism
Forced sterilization
»Selection« in the institution
Everyday life in the institutions
Therapy
Exclusion of children
Exclusion of adults
»Aktion T4«
Planning and organisation
The organisation's headquarters
The registration form procedure
The T4 Murders
Bureaucratic procedures
Protests
Church representatives
Activists
Jurists
Further murder campaigns
»Child euthanasia«
Decentralised »euthanasia«
Extermination by starvation: Eglfing-Haar
Death through medication: Hadamar
Death through medication: Meseritz
The murders of patients in the Occupied Territories
Murders in Poland
Murders in Soviet Union
»Euthanasia« and the Holocaust
»Concentration camp inmate euthanasia«
The victims and their families
Groups of victims
Family members
Perpetrators and profiteers
Biographies of perpetrators
After 1945
Prosecution
Post-war psychiatry
Compensation for the victims
Remembrance
Germany
Austria
Poland
Russia - Belarus - Ukraine
France - The Netherlands - Belgium
Epilogue
Biographies of victims
Austria
For informations to the sites please click on the pictures.
Vienna, Memorial (of 2003) for the victims of the Am Spiegelgrund »children's ward for expert care« on the site of today's Otto Wagner Hospital. Each of the 772 lights represents a victim.
© Nadja Meister
Innsbruck, Monument »Lest we Forget« in front of the Medical University
© Medizinische Universität Innsbruck
Salzburg, Restored monument in the park near Mirabell Castle
© Otto Saxinger
Hartheim, Artistic recreation of the T4 bus garage by Heribert Friedl
© Nik Fleischmann, Linz
Klagenfurt, Monument of »The Sleeper« in the park of the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Hospital Klagenfurt
© Herwig Oberlerchner