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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
Poland
For informations to the sites please click on the pictures.
Meseritz, Laying flowers at the memorial stone of 1966 on the 30th anniversary of Obrzyce Hospital, 1975
© Samodzielny Publiczny Szpital dla Nerwowo i Psychicznie Chorych w Międzyrzeczu
Poznań, Casemate 17 of Fort VII. It served as a gas chamber in 1939 (present condition).
© Radomił Binek, Poznań
Piaśnica, Burial site of the victims of the massacre in Piaśnica
© Jakub Raciborski